If we want to compare this to libraries, it’s necessary to redefine the role of libraries.
For the analogy to work, libraries now provide the service of generating new books/stories based on works under the library’s care. As a library patron, you’ll give the librarian a prompt, and they’ll generate a book for you.
This book will be intrinsically dependent on the authors of all of the books in the library, but those authors will not be credited or paid for the new work.
“Librarian, please generate a fantasy novel in the style of George R. R. Martin that continues where A Dance with Dragons left off”.
If this is what libraries did, authors would not want their books there.
This is not what libraries do, and the analogy does not hold up.
For the analogy to work, libraries now provide the service of generating new books/stories based on works under the library’s care. As a library patron, you’ll give the librarian a prompt, and they’ll generate a book for you.
This book will be intrinsically dependent on the authors of all of the books in the library, but those authors will not be credited or paid for the new work.
“Librarian, please generate a fantasy novel in the style of George R. R. Martin that continues where A Dance with Dragons left off”.
If this is what libraries did, authors would not want their books there.
This is not what libraries do, and the analogy does not hold up.