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Two tweets by Courtney Milan, timestamp 10:15pm May 21, 2023: Hey, indie romance, they trained GPT by scraping free books on Smashwords. WE are disproportionately represented. Quoted tweet by Ella Drake: 11,038 total books. Zero author consent. Zero (link to towards data science piece in my previous post) /end quoted tweet Courtney Milan: And for the record, it looks like what they were doing was creating a big file full of books and just passing them around to each other. Not a thing I would be doing if I wasn't really carefully checking the rights on the thing.

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Two tweets by Courtney Milan, timestamp 10:15pm May 21, 2023: Hey, indie romance, they trained GPT by scraping free books on Smashwords. WE are disproportionately represented. Quoted tweet by Ella Drake: 11,038 total books. Zero author consent. Zero (link to towards data science piece in my previous post) /end quoted tweet Courtney Milan: And for the record, it looks like what they were doing was creating a big file full of books and just passing them around to each other. Not a thing I would be doing if I wasn't really carefully checking the rights on the thing.
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azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 22:51:38 JST azteclady
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Please understand: these fuckers have been scrapping content, including copyrighted, clearly marked, commercial, published content, not 'just' fanfiction--titles from @CourtneyMilan from @CathyPegau from @jodywallace AmyJoCousins and many others; there are close to 20 thousand titles they've been scrapping for the past eight years or so.
(see links in previous post)
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