Someone used AI to create a book about me and sold it online
www.abc.net.au
Cam Wilson, who is the ABC's AI reporter, recently discovered an AI-generated book about him and a book he wrote.

@camwilson@mastodon.social:

I was holding something that probably took longer to leaf through than it did to generate. Filled with things I didn’t say, poorly written and bizarrely laid out, it was extremely frustrating.

Others have struggled to get AI books taken down, sometimes books that aren’t just about them, but are attributed to them.

Australian Society of Authors chief executive Lucy Hayward says this has become so common as to be unremarkable.

“On the publication day for an author, you’ll often see that there’s already an AI-generated version of the book that’s already been on sale,” she says.

    • arbilp3@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      The government has been quietly consulting on two proposed changes to copyright law to facilitate AI training in Australia.

      Both plans would make training opt-out for authors and other creatives, meaning that the burden was on the individual, not the company, to stop their work being used to train AI.

      AI companies say an opt-out system is necessary to allow legal AI training in Australia, something the federal government explicitly says it hopes will happen.

      Haywood and other creators think the onus should be on AI companies to secure approval from creatives to use and protect their work.

      Will our govt have the decency to do what is right by creatives?

      I hope writers also come up with creative ways themselves to protect their work. This article is one way.

      We also better be there for them, demanding that AI companies get approval from creatives and not just creatives opt out… And boycott Amazon and other platforms which are involved in selling fake works.