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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

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Post by mvdtnz »

Balgair wrote: post #128

As an author, this sounds amazing, if I can also get a look at the things people ask. Especially if I can get some sort of stats on the questions. Like, if there were a lot of questions about when a character did something, then I know I wrote that badly. Or if people talk about a set of characters, then I know that those characters made an impact. Or if no-one asks about the book itself, but about some plot point or…

That's a privacy nightmare. I absolutely would not want authors to have access to this information.

Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

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Post by gwbas1c »

KaiserPro wrote: post #102
gwbas1c wrote: post #73

> To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out. > It also sounds as though authors and publishers were, for the most part, not notified of this feature’s existence. This is perfectly reasonable fair use. I'm starting to realize that a lot of content creators either don't understand fair use, or otherwise are unreasonable contro…

> This is perfectly reasonable fair use. Well thats questionable actually Sure the _result_ is transformative, but it had to consume the content in the first place to make a transformative. (grey area). Yes, you _could_ argue that its a plain review, but you need to prove that its actually reviewing it rather than just quoting. But as its the machine doing it, that further muddies the water. Is it the end user whos g…

Please re-read my statement about being a control freak.

This is the lawsuit against the Diamond Rio all over again.

Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

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Post by nephihaha »

DennisP wrote: post #87
nephihaha wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can't force you do anything, but a book or a piece of music etc, is often designed in a particular order so you get a particular effect. You don't look up the end of a whodunnit before reading the beginning because that would make it kind of pointless.

And yet, some people enjoy doing that. I have no idea why but I think they should be allowed to do it. In any case, Amazon claims this is spoiler-free, which would be easy to implement by feeding only the portion you've read into the LLM context.

There are many things that people are allowed to do which are not advisable. All a matter of degree I suppose.

Re: New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books

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Post by KaiserPro »

gwbas1c wrote: post #132
KaiserPro wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is perfectly reasonable fair use. Well thats questionable actually Sure the _result_ is transformative, but it had to consume the content in the first place to make a transformative. (grey area). Yes, you _could_ argue that its a plain review, but you need to prove that its actually reviewing it rather than just quoting. But as its the machine doing it, that further muddies the water. Is it the end user whos g…

Please re-read my statement about being a control freak. This is the lawsuit against the Diamond Rio all over again.

No I get that bit. But give how much amazon are keen to take the piss, I can see why they might indulge in such specific control freakery.

Afterall, I'd do the same thing, I don't trust amazon(the media part) with my IP

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