Down with copyright-infringing LLMs—long live the small language model
Jenny Hedley At my final PhD milestone conference, one of my writer friends whispered conspiratorially about how ‘we all hate AI’, sweeping me into the prevailing category of Writers Against Machine Learning. I did not then reveal my position, which is more complex than love or hate. If my (non-existent) published novel had been cannibalised by large language models (LLMs) via pirated databases as my friend’s had, my curiosity about the possible benefits of AI might similarly be quashed. For years now my interest in digital writing has been guided by the ethos of the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo)…