Dead Metalpoet's society on Nostr: Cory Doctorow your latest collumn had me thinking. We use books to train inteligences ...

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) your latest collumn had me thinking. We use books to train inteligences now - it's one of their main uses and always has been. Nobody has ever suggested that, if you're going to use a book to teach people with, you need to pay for more than buying them a copy of the book.

I fully expect AI companies to raise that argument in their lawsuits: that using a book to learn is definitely not a copyrightable activity since they've always been used that way. Indeed, one of the groups of people who MOST rely on books to learn: is future authors.

Great readers make great writers after all.
As writers, we learn from other writers, by reading their books.