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Last Week in AI #229: Authors petition to remove books from AI training data, mixed reports of ChatGPT performance degradation, and more!

Authors sign letter over concerns on AI trained on books, ChatGPT changes behavior and performance over time, Meta's strategy in open-sourcing LLMs, Google tests a tool to write news articles

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Jul 24, 2023
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Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books

More than 8,500 authors have signed an open letter urging tech companies behind large language models like ChatGPT and Bard to stop using their writing without permission or compensation. The authors argue that these AI systems mimic and regurgitate their language, stories, …

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