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Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work | Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.
When the Singaporean government asked local writers if they would agree to having their work used to train a large language model, it probably did not expect the country’s tiny literary community to react so fiercely. So Gwee declined to let the LLM train on his works, including the first book written entirely in Singlish — a creole language that is a blend of Singaporean slang and English and is widely spoken in the country. Last year, U.S. comedian Sarah Silverman joined a class-action lawsuit with other authors against OpenAI and one against Meta, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for using protected work to train AI programs.
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