Fuck AI

Your favorite thing you wanted to happen has happened, Everyone lived the way you wanted them to ever-after. The End.

• Every LLM generated story

Anything would be better than an LLM by virtue of the fact that a human wrote it.

If his legacy is securing some kind of AI rights for artists I'd prefer that honestly. That book is at this point the Star Citizen of books. Even if it ever somehow comes out, the insane amount of time and hype surrounding it absolutely guarantee disappointment.

Just give up on the book. Even if he gets the Winds of Winter done, the rest will never follow. He seems to have found himself unable to focus on it. I imagine that between the backlash to the shows end, the attention and intense pressure that was put on him, and the constant complaints by shitty fans (cough) acting like they are entitled to his work and reminding him he's going to die before finishing it if he doesn't hurry up... I can't imagine any of that makes him feel like working on it. He clearly loves the world and needs the creative outlet, which is why he keeps popping out novella after novella set in Westeros that no one asked for. But the fact that he's not working on WoW feels like it just doesnt make him feel good to work on it anymore. And I cant fault the guy for not powering through like it is a book report due in the morning.

I'm actually ok with him taking the time to sue the fuck out of Open AI. But let's be real here, I've given up any hope of the books being finished anyway.

Just forget for a second that this has anything to do with AI specifically: I wonder how it could possibly fall under fair use to grind up hundreds of thousands of pieces of copyrighted content, and then use that data to create software that you then profit from.

The question, as I see it, is if simply mashing all this intellectual property together -- and deriving a series of weights for an AI model from that -- somehow makes it not theft simply because all the content is smashed into one big pile of pink goo in which no single piece of content is recognizable.

There's worse things he could be doing with his time.

There's no benefit in him doing so. He likely makes more money working on any other project than ASOIAF and it's probably more fun for him to not have to worry about the fanbase.

And nobody has to like him for abandoning his series. He deserves all the criticism he gets.

Yes and no - there's so much GoT fan content out there that they could theoretically pick up on the key names and places without the books

That said, I'd be willing to bet these shitty AI companies went the extra mile to pirate these books to train their LLMs, because copyright law is only for the poors.

I generally despise LLMs, but I'd be intrigued to see LLMs be the thing that reigns in copyright law a little bit because it's gotten too out of hand.

At this point it's not in his best interest to finish it. It's analogous to the situation Valve carved for themselves with Half Life 3.

Create enough build up, and then have to delay it for one reason or another and... you're now trapped in a loop of more expectation, meaning the product must be better, meaning you're not confident to release it as is, so now more expectation builds up, and the loop repeats until you know that no matter what you release the public won't be satisfied enough, because reality can't possibly match their expectations, and you're no longer free to be creative because of the lingering expectations.

When that happens it's literally your best move to not release the thing.

But just imagine a world where he somehow manages to kill one of the big IRL villains of our time! It could only get better if he manages to take out some billionaires in the process

No. Each work is its own violation. The RIAA showed us that decades ago.

But if he wins, then every other similar author has a blueprint of how to get some cash... And if the defendants keep doing the action, everyone can file suits again, right?