About whether lacking copyrighted novels in training data limits AI-generated fiction and personas.
Has this happened?
Yes 92 (70%)Not sure 28 (21%)No 12 (9%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether lacking copyrighted novels in training data limits AI-generated fiction and personas.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
No for at least two reasons.
(1) Google can out-sue Disney and Sony Records when it comes to copyright.
(2) GPT-3 is not that good and won't be. (e.g. it is not a strength that $10 million+ in CPU power was used; if they could do the training on a TI-84 calculator)
Something like that might be possible but it will probably be something that has a large "knowledge base" about the world, language, etc. of some kind and takes the book as an argument. (e.g. you can't say that a system is capable of "reading comprehension" if it can only understand a text that is in the training set.)