Singapore writers are concerned that using their works to train AI without permission violates copyright laws and threatens their livelihoods
SINGAPORE: Members of Singapore’s literary community have been unhappy with efforts from the government to use their works in training a large language model , machine learning designed to comprehend and generate human language text.
In April, however, writers expressed concerns over copyright and compensation concerns. A survey was sent by IMDA on March 28, giving the writers until Apr 7 to provide consent for their works to be used for NMLP, though the deadline was later extended to Apr 15. “That’s barely scratching the surface of all the other complications with LLMs – plagiarism, stealing someone’s written voice and publishing fake works in their name, protecting the dataset, the sheer ethics of it all, etc,” she added., journalist and writer Nicholas Wong discussed the matter further, noting the literary community’s fierce reaction to IMDA’s request.
“The stages of planning before writers are even considered as worth consulting do not inspire confidence that my interest will be a priority,” Mr Wong quotes the prolific writer as saying.
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