I find myself as an author in the midst of the AI chat revolution. Thanks to Alex Reisner of the Atlantic, there is now a search tool available for the database called Books3. As for my personal experience, despite the rigorous training LLaMa received using my books, it didn’t seem to grasp much. Its responses to my questions revealed it to be just as clueless as other generative AI chatbots. According to the authors, AI training involves reproducing entire works or substantial portions thereof, deeming it a euphemism for copying and ingesting.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 14, 2023 16:08 UTC