Artificial Intelligence Wants to Inhale My Montana Book

Artificial intelligence wants to inhale my Montana book

Most of today’s commercial AI programs are “large language models,” with skills not in logic, reasoning or math but merely in generating text. That directly threatens writers’ jobs.

WRITERS ON THE RANGE: Artificial intelligence wants to inhale my Montana book

Recently, my publisher told me that a major technology company involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) wants to use my book, Stories from Montana’s Enduring Frontier, “for AI training purposes.”

AI Wants To Inhale My Montana Book

Recently, my publisher told me that a major technology company involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) wants to use my book, Stories from Montana’s Enduring Frontier, “for AI training purposes.” I would earn, the representative explained, $340 for “this one-time use.” Is that one-time use like a wet wipe—disposable, expendable, easily sacrificed? Stories from Montana’s Enduring...