King said that he's not opposed to programmers using his works to teach AI about creativity.
Thousands of other authors have objected to their work being used in AI without permission.
Uploading the works of others to computers, or "state-of-the-art digital blenders" as he put it, can teach AI how to produce better art.
AdvertisementAdvertisementKing said that forbidding programmers from using his to teach AI is essentially pointless.
Or a Luddite trying to stop industrial progress by hammering a steam loom to pieces," King wrote.
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Stephen King, King, he's, Margaret Atwood, James Patterson, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, King Canute
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