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Opinion - Artificial intelligence wants to inhale my Montana book

Most of today’s commercial artificial intelligence models are "large language models" primarily used for generating text.
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Most of today’s commercial artificial intelligence models are "large language models" primarily used for generating text.

The reality of artificial intelligence as a threat to creativity has hit home for writer John Clayton: He’s been offered $340 from a company that wants to use his book, “Stories from Montana’s Enduring Frontier,” for “AI training purposes.” Clayton wonders: Is this paltry payment marginally better than outright theft of his book—a not-uncommon practice?