{"id":433,"date":"2024-04-12T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T22:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:41:35","slug":"crashing-the-s-and-s-party-shush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/crashing-the-s-and-s-party-shush\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCrashing the S and S party\u201d &#8211; Shush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cTwo days before the first of its centenary events, the New York Times reported that Simon &amp; Schuster\u2014this great American company, this remarkable piece of cultural history, this repository of some of the world\u2019s most popular books as well as its finest literature, including sixty-one Pulitzer prizewinners and eighteen National Book Award winners\u2014had been sized up as AI fodder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The large language models that drive new artificial intelligence services such as ChatGPT are trained on mountains of text. The higher the mountains, the better the training. Trouble is, there\u2019s a shortage of readily available text not covered by copyright. According to the Times, Facebook owner Meta, which is competing with Google, OpenAI, and a lot of other firms to develop large language models, last year seriously considered buying S&amp;S not because it admired its business or its books, but simply to feed its AI machine\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shush.substack.com\/p\/crashing-the-s-and-s-party\">https:\/\/shush.substack.com\/p\/crashing-the-s-and-s-party<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTwo days before the first of its centenary events, the New York Times reported that Simon &amp; Schuster\u2014this great American company, this remarkable piece of cultural history, this repository of some of the world\u2019s most popular books as well as its finest literature, including sixty-one Pulitzer prizewinners and eighteen National Book Award winners\u2014had been sized&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}