New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
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Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#2If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my view.
Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! Lol. In my house we still call owning a license to something that is not likely to be revoked "owning it".
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#3So...Are all Amazon books available on Kindle ? So...All books are content for the LLM behind it, I suppose ?
Welp. Seems perfect for a poison data effort !
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#4If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my view. Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! L…
"Amazon DID NOT answer PubLunch’s questions about “what rights the company was relying upon to execute the new feature was not answered, nor did they elaborate on the technical details of the service and any protections involved (whether to prevent against hallucinations, or to protect the text from AI training).”
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#5This sounds useful for when you forget something that happened chapters earlier or when you space out and need to figure out what's happening. This feature should work for the user, author's shouldn't be able to deprive me of this tool.
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#6If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my view. Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! L…
"Amazon DID NOT answer PubLunch’s questions about “what rights the company was relying upon to execute the new feature was not answered, nor did they elaborate on the technical details of the service and any protections involved (whether to prevent against hallucinations, or to protect the text from AI training).”
> what rights the company was relying upon to execute the new feature
what rights does a bookstore clerk need to answer questions about a product on the store's shelves? what a presumptuous question
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#7This sounds useful for when you forget something that happened chapters earlier or when you space out and need to figure out what's happening. This feature should work for the user, author's shouldn't be able to deprive me of this tool.
Good lord, at this point just drone off in front of a Netflix show. How bad has it gotten that you even suggest that one can "forget what happened chapters earlier" ? This is not normal.
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#8If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my view. Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! L…
>none of the author's business how I read it, in my view.
my favorite way to eat is give other people my food, and have them tell me how it tastes and what not being hungry feels like.
or to labor the point for the people that are having LLMs do their reading for them. Watching golf isn't playing golf.
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#9Seems like a great feature. What I’d really like is a “recap for me till here” for books I started reading then stopped for whatever reason. I was reading Unsong for a bit (great book, very enjoyable) and then lately the baby has wanted a lot more attention so I didn’t get much reading done. I just want to catch up quick so I can continue.
LLMs are great for this, for the plot and character questions, etc.
Authors have nothing to do with it. It’s my device, my book that I bought. It would be like if YouTube banned a screen reader. These are at two different levels of the stack.
Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books
#10So...Are all Amazon books available on Kindle ? So...All books are content for the LLM behind it, I suppose ? Welp. Seems perfect for a poison data effort !
Have you read any of the kindle-only erotic slop-smut that's going these days? The poisoning is well underway.