Thousands of hours of my work pirated without my permission. And that's just one book.
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The Atlantic
Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.
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The works are literally yours, no? You own them.
When Disney etc had courts shut down streaming sites in the early 2000 they did so on the basis of intellectual theft and people went to prison.
Why haven't you been robbed like Disney?
Stealing our personal data to sell to advertisers was bad enough, but helping themselves to our intellectual property is criminal.
Hope it was listening😅
The methods here were dodgy, and downloading LibGen an act of copyright infringement, but training AIs by letting them read should be fair use.
https://youtu.be/pvcK9X4XEF8?si=yYn6em5ygdZieokq&t=1154