Authors including Michael Chabon and Sarah Silverman are taking action against Meta (which owns Facebook) for using pirated copies of their books to train generative AI. In The Atlantic, Alex Reisner has published a searchable database of the authors who’ve been similarly exploited and many of these have expressed their annoyance.
As well they might. But do spare a thought for those authors whose words weren’t considered worth stealing. Because I’m bloody furious.
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