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Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Their lawsuit, filed in New York federal court

Welp.... that's going nowhere.

[–] IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The writers alleged in the complaint that Microsoft used a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books to train Megatron, an algorithm that gives text responses to user prompts.

Which Megatron are we referring to?

This

Or This

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au -1 points 1 month ago

Paywalled.