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To each author, a mimetic AI model

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Jenny Hedley  Imagine a future where writers control their own small language models (SLMs) trained on select high-quality data including their creative works. Unlike resource-guzzling, copyright-be-damned large language models (LLMs), compact models can be run locally on minimal hardware[1], keeping privacy intact while conserving resources. That future is already here for the tech-curious who are willing to accept coding assistance from LLMs. While suggesting such purposeful use of LLMs, I feel reproached by my dear colleague Beau Windon who wrote ‘Is it Time to Bully Generative AI Users?’. Am I the LLM user/‘slopsucker’/‘botlicker’ who, according to Windon, treats ‘the water-guzzling,…

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Down with copyright-infringing LLMs—long live the small language model

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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)…

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