COPYCAT CHAT
From the OTHE SIDE OF THE DESK
AI’s potential for plagiarism has concerning implications for the books industry, worries literary agent Piers Blofeld
Piers Blofeld
Imitation is, we are told, the sincerest form of flattery. But what if the imitator is a machine entirely devoid of any sense of appreciation for the writer whose style it is copying?
There is a case working its way through the US courts at the moment in which a couple of authors are suing the creators of Chat GPT for infringing their copyright by using their books as one of the 7,000 authors used as part of the vast quantities of data used to ‘train’ the language algorithm.