Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Authors, search your name here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
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If you’re reading this and work for Elsevier: 👈🤣🤣🤭✌️🖕
https://libgen.mx/
Note also Cory's take on #AI and IP https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
But go ahead, destroy another archive because of misinfo. I'm sure your books will last forever on centralized storefronts that are known for random, sudden delistings of people's works. :V
(That's a bit of an exaggeration, most of my work isn't in there yet. But unless you're a superduper bestselling author, every penny counts.)
Not today, but someday!
(Answer key: No, Hell no)
Why should I work for you for free?
And yes, this is why fighting for freedom of information is good. Stealing a book by looking at it is not like stealing a car 🙂
Several of my peer-reviewed research is out there, but most aren't publicly available/ behind paywalls.
They must have either paid or stolen access to PubMed/NCBI, Thompson, etc. - hope that's true & those companies have a BALL in court!
"This “seems unreasonably expensive,” wrote one research scientist on an internal company chat"
It's like they have zero awareness of anything.
Can you imagine if we got royalties off that? What I currently get wouldn't pay a week's grocery bill, but from Meta searches?
The same thing happened to weavers around 1800. Machine looms put them out of work. But we benefited in the end.
Surely if a list exists, those responsible can be identified, right?
It's why I never asked for my FBI file from the 60s and 70s because I'm afraid that they don't have one.
(I'm okay in this case, however; Meta used 13 of mine.)
Fuckers.
Does that mean they used mine too?
https://wp.me/p8FUTb-jL
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/authors-guild-author-letters-to-ai-companies?source=email&
Thanks!
Good that they didn't, but also a little sad that I wasn't worth being stolen from.
May his rage reach out from the grave.
the link...
@edzitron.com has a podcast called Better Offline and talks a lot about it. High recommend!
"Just go to the library! Request the books they don't have!" Lol. In higher education there are books, articles, magazines, dissertations and etc that are literally locked
Too many in fact!
Also not all universities have the resources to buy books for every student when they all have to borrow at the same time?
this comment is not me stating any opinion on any entities involved or their actions; I am merely trying to correct a simple factual misconception that I can see brewing
To be completely fair, I did release it to Google books for free access, but they could have had the courtesy to say thank you.
* in comparison to Meta. I understand the problem of piracy.
The point of “You Wouldn’t Download a Car” memes wasn’t “lmao roasted”, it was “lol I would def download a car if no one else lost one as a result”
What else does this principle apply to? You belongings that you paid for? Anyone free to take those?
Authors, search your name here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
it's what an actual society would like
So maybe Meta will have learned *something*, even if it's only the Einstein equations.
Zuck the Cuck gets Stuck for Billions of Bucks!
Not sure but that feels irregularly irregular.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
#medsky
and it says
Mark Zuckerberg is a dickhead.
Tax the filthy rich so the world can breathe.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/ai/conceptual/understanding-tokens
(But while I'm here, thanks so much for reading—means a lot. ❤️)
I'm wondering how stuff gets in there...are they stealing from libraries?
Piracy sites abound and they’re almost all are simply e-books with the copy protection stripped off.
Usually it’s younger fans uploading books to share what they liked.
Again, this website got me through university.
It's my friends, who are struggling, seeing their books stolen, distributed, and now fed to the AI the oligarchs want to use to replace human artists.
I sympathize about textbooks, though.
It can make the difference between whether an author can afford to continue writing or whether they have to give up to take a second job instead, especially for marginalized authors.
meta is the evil one here
Nobody writes papers for journals. They write them for the scientific community. You shouldn't have to spend $20 for an article on Elsevier just to *maybe* learn something.
Lawsuits are numerous-ongoing, to little avail. Thank god!