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The Enjoyment Purpose

The enjoyment purpose. Do exceptions under the copyright laws of Japan & Singapore allow GenAI training? TLDR: Not really… The latest issue of the AI Copyright Newsletter

Feb 8, 2024 - 1 min read

About this website

This is the personal website of Peter Schoppert, reformed technopreneur, publisher and Director of NUS Press. Over the last year I find myself in demand as a public speaker and writer on Generative AI and its interactions with the publishing world.

Sep 22, 2023 - 2 min read

Publishers, authors, has your book been used to train an AI model without your permission?

Here’s one place you can look. https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info I’ve placed on GitHub a list of some 85,600 ISBNs extracted from the Books3 dataset that was used to train Facebook’s latest model, LLaMA, launched Feb 24th.

Mar 5, 2023 - 3 min read

The problem is not the power of the AI, it’s the power of our brains

My AI was making me angry. I had trained up a chatbot on the Character.ai website, in the personality and style of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Feb 26, 2023 - 5 min read

Good AIs copy, great AIs steal

untangling the copyright status of foundation models I presented this paper in mid-October 2022 to the annual conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (the candid shot above is by Vincent Nghai; I’m the blur one!

Jan 7, 2023 - 31 min read

Displacing Singapore

I wrote this essay in 1998, for a volume of photographs by Lucas Jodogne, titled Singapore: Views on the Urban Landscape. Lucas’ photographs were marvelous, a sort of warm version of the New Topographics.

Jan 3, 2023 - 12 min read