Colm O'Regan:  AI scraped my novels, but why?

Finding my novels scraped by AI, at first I couldn’t possibly figure out what use it would have to build up the large language models ability to describe the inner workings of an imaginary Tidy Towns group

Colm O'Regan: "Just like all of us, AIs can have bias. And just like all of us, our bias depends on what we’ve been told. That bias can lead us to say some stupid stuff. AI systems reflect the prejudices in their training data. If it was trained on biased data, it can act in biased ways. Shite in, shite out." Picture: Chani Anderson.

Artificial intelligence — Lookit, you can’t avoid it. Here are a few words to get you through if you are ever stopped by the AI police.

AI, machine learning, neural networks, and large language models. I’ve used these interchangeably like bog/marsh/mire/fen/swamp. But they’re not all the same thing.