Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
AI AND ML
LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril
Two prominent science fiction authors have decried the impact of AI on their craft.
"I do not want or need a large language model to write my fiction for me. I write fiction compulsively – before I was published I wrote for many years as a hobbyist – so why on earth would I pay someone else to take my fun away?" wrote Charles Stross in a Saturday post. Stross graciously mentioned The Register in his Laundry Files novels.
"I maintain that any serious author should shun LLMs like the plague," he added. "Did I mention the 'stealing' thing? This isn't hyperbole: I'm one of the parties to the settlement in the class action lawsuit against Anthropic AI for pirating eBooks to train their LLMs."
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