ai makers have faced a mountain of criticism for borrowing from the work of others to train their models. Now, the world's largest publisher is taking steps to ensure that its authors' work is not plagiarized in the name of progress.
ai-rebuff” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:The Bookseller;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> reports that Penguin Random House Publishing changed the copyright page on the cover of its books to address the use of any of its titles as sources for ai training. Now the text says: “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any way for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems.”
The new wording also protects against data absorption by noting that the publisher “expressly reserves (the titles) from the text and data mining exception.” This part of the modified text comes from a recent regarding exceptions and ownership of data and text mining.
Penguin Random House is the latest publisher to take action against invasive ai models. Earlier this week, issued a cease and desist letter to ai startup Perplexity to detect the use of its articles and stories to help its ai model create responses for users.
