If you recently learned that your book (or books) were used without your knowledge or consent to train AI, here's what you can do next, according to the Authors Guild (which has already filed a class action suit against OpenAI, representing more than a dozen writers).
@ErikJonker@laminda@bookstodon I think the answer is no. You own A COPY of the book, but the content. So using that for your own purposes is not justified.
Some time ago, I bought a piece of original art, because I wanted to use it on my book cover. The artists was fine with that, but I asked - because even the ownership of an original piece of art does not give me the right to reproduce it for my own gain (AFAIK).
@maartenpelgrim@ErikJonker@laminda@bookstodon Fair Use: Where you are allowed to use an extract of a published work (not all of it or even a subsstantial amout of it) with a reference to the original.
All of which is about using other works and guiding people to those original ones in preference if you want more detail, or to confirm the quote or implication is acurate.
So I might say "Einstein said that E = mc^2" - and refer to his paper.
An LLM might - quite easily - misrepresent this - saying that Einstein said e = mc, for example, whih matches the correct structure, but an academc reference implies that I have read the original, and understood it. LLM doesn;t do this.
@ErikJonker@maartenpelgrim@laminda@bookstodon LLM as a tool to organise thoughts etc is fine (as a general rule, it is good for that - building a structure of what your answer/paper should look like). The problem comes if the source material you feed into an LLM is used elsewhere - if it is passed to the LLM owner, for training the LLM process (as they mostly are)
Then you and the LLM have probably violated copyright - albeit unwittingly on your part.
Okay, now I want to know if there are any academic journals devoted to speculative fiction. I know there are the anthologies like BtVS and Philosophy (or the book I have on my TBR, the Religions of Star Trek).
If there isn't, must look up what it takes to start one, because that would certainly fall under the umbrella of something I'm working on.
But this is why I am not a fan of genres, because it excludes some that should be included, and means that gross-genre work - which can be so incredible - is problematic.
@DarkMatterZine@timgatewood@niten@betaquarii@bookstodon Yes agree there. I have called my book "Magical Realism" because it involves magic in the real world. But it is much more fantasy/humour than literature (nobody has ever accused me of writing literature).
I guess this is the problem with a genre - so often, it is really wide. It covers radically different areas. Or it is so niche as to be the purview of one or two authors, wnd inpregnable.
Taking the form of an extended mission message to earth from an intergalactic exploratory mission, Becky Chambers' #scifi novella, To be Taught if Fortunate (2019), is a quick read. While lacking narrative fireworks its a pleasing matter-of-fact description of space exploration & the ethical dilemmas it will encounter. While ultimately rather melancholy, it is an interesting afternoon's read if you like procedural #speculativefiction @bookstodon
@jules@timgatewood@SteveClough@niten@betaquarii@bookstodon IMO just as defining genres is tricky, assuming a POV from a comment or two is fraught.
Like, I just reviewed a book that is sold as cosy crime/murder but I say it’s also fantasy and this is a hill I’m prepared to defend. It’s complicated.
Best not to read too much into it or anything short of an essay on the topic.
I always take the view that there will be something that can be classed as sci-fi for anyone. Some niche of it that anyone who reads can find enjoyment in.
@Doreen32128@StephM@weebdeluxe@bookstodon I don't tend to throw books, but Charlotte Grey by Sebastian Faulks brought me home and having to hug my kids. Utterly traumatising.