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Behind the Blog: Chatbot 'Addiction' and a Reading List
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss wrestling over a good headline, what to read this summer, and Super 8 film.EMANUEL: I would really love it if the people who accuse us of using clickbait headlines saw how long, pedantic, and annoying our internal debates are about headlines for some stories. Case in point is Jasons story this week, which had the headline Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not.This is an important decision so it got covered everywhere. I dont think any of the other headlines I saw from other big publications are wrong, but they do reflect why it was hard to summarize this story in a headline, and different headlines reflect what different publications thought was most important and notable about it. If you want a full breakdown you should read Jasons story, but the gist is that a judge ruled that its okay for companies to use copyrighted books for their training data, but its not okay for them to get these books by pirating them, which many of them did. Thats the simplest way I can think of to sum it up and thats what our headline says, but there are still many levels of complexity to the story that no headline could fully capture.
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