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This TechDirt article was written by someone who has zero understanding of IP, theft, writing, or AI training.

First, the #Prosecraft fucker stole the content he fed his AI.
Second, the 'tool' doesn't help writers find their voice, it just puts numeric values on things it doesn't really understand.

Dear lord, we are so fucked when these are the people 'speaking for the consumer' on technology.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

I didn't even hear about this tool. Unfortunately now I'm only hearing about it after it was sunk. What a shame.

The tool in question was Prosecraft. It was capable of linguistic analysis of works of...well, anything, I guess, but it was really geared towards literature.

It could find the most "passive" section of text, for example. Might be useful if you wanted to improve that.

Alas, it's gone now.

#prosecraft #copyright

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

Gizmodo: Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Author Backlash https://gizmodo.com/prosecraft-books-shut-down-ai-algorithms-novel-fiction-1850715319 #generativepretrainedtransformer #artificialneuralnetworks #artificialintelligence #entertainmentculture #emergingtechnologies #largelanguagemodels #jeffvandermeer #gretchenfelker #zachrosenberg #prosecraft #benjismith #copyright #indradas #fairuse #chatgpt #openai

@hengymrohebwlad
#Prosecraft did the harvesting, purportedly for "literary analysis"; meanwhile, those texts were used to "train" an AI service (shaxpir) to produce writing "in the style of your favorite author".

That's why him taking prosecraft offline doesn't do much for the intellectual property theft if he still has the data.

It's in the thread.

@romancelandia

@romancelandia
#IndieAuthors

Report the theft if #Prosecraft listed your books.
https://www.iprcenter.gov/referral/report-ip-theft-form

Link mentioned in the image:
https://blog.shaxpir.com/top-ten-reasons-to-use-shaxpir-for-nanowrimo-this-year-9d42fe6df1b5

Gizmodo: Fiction Analytics Site Prosecraft Shut Down After Author Backlash https://gizmodo.com/prosecraft-books-shut-down-ai-algorithms-novel-fiction-1850715319 #generativepretrainedtransformer #computationalneuroscience #artificialneuralnetworks #artificialintelligence #entertainmentculture #largelanguagemodels #jeffvandermeer #gretchenfelker #zachrosenberg #prosecraft #benjismith #indradas #chatgpt #openai #ebook

@romancelandia

Here's the link to the weird ass and self-serving "you are mean to me" blog post; keep in mind that he may have taken #Prosecraft down, but he *still has the data* that he fed to whatever AI he was using.

This isn't over just because the website is offline right now.

#IndieAuthors

PSA: ICYMI, some technobro grabbed 25K books and fed them to an AI to do 'literary analysis' and when called out did the faux, "but it's a public service, you should be honored" then backtracking with, "email me if you want me to pull your book" and now escalating to, "I'm taking the whole site down because you are all ungrateful idiots" (paraphrasing)

See thread:
https://twitter.com/QueenOfRats/status/1688606310743552002

He tried La Nora!

@romancelandia
#IndieAuthors #Prosecraft

This is good advice:
https://mastodon.social/@Celeste_pewter/110850216180049461

So this dude @benjismith made an #AI scraping website called #Prosecraft to "analyse" books and train his writing AI. Of course without consent.
Link to #twitter , sorry
https://twitter.com/ZachRoseWriter/status/1688561466356486145?s=20
#FuckAI #writingcommunity
Some people already contacted their lawyers.