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Pearson has already sent out a cease-and-desist letter over use of its intellectual property:
Textbooks giant Pearson is currently taking legal action over the use of its intellectual property to train AI models, chief executive Andy Bird revealed today as the firm laid out its plans for its own artificial intelligence-powered products.
The firm laid out its plans on how it would use AI a week after its share price tumbled by 15% as American rival Chegg said its own business had been hurt by the rise of ChatGPT.
Those plans would include AI-powered summaries of Pearson educational videos, to be rolled out this month for Pearson+ members, as well as AI-generated multiple choice questions for areas where a student might need more help.
Bird said Pearson had an advantage as its AI products would use Pearson content for training, which he said would make it more reliable.
[...] Bird also said it was usually easy to tell what a large language model such as ChatGPT has been trained on, because "you can ask it".
Bird also sought to point out a difference between Pearson and Chegg, which focuses more on homework assistance.
"They are in a very different business to us," he said. "We see a great differentiator between what Chegg are offering and what Pearson+ are offering.
"We're in the business of helping you learn and improve your skills, not in the business of answering."
He added that - as Pearson was in the business of learning - its products would be hard to replace.
"If all we had to do was read a set of facts in order to learn, there'd be no need for schools, colleges and teachers."
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday May 12, @02:07AM
It's quite annoying when you get those very expensive books and they only use like a chapter or so. Those books are just made to copy, legal-smegal. Still nothing stops you from reading the rest of the book to. To get some actual value out of it. It should give you extra knowledge and context on the matter being described. This whole idea that you should just read certain pages, paragraphs or chapters is borderline idiocy. It's a book. You start at the start and read to the end.
I recall a professor that wrote a lot of books. So first he got paid by the university as a professor and to teach the class but he also used only/mainly his own books as literature for his classes so he also got paid by the students that had to buy his books. That is some evil academic genius level of thinking and planning.