Billions of dollars are at stake as courts in the US and UK decide whether tech companies can legally train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books. Authors and publishers have filed ...
Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant's defense is pretty thin. In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a ...
Facepalm: A group of authors has sued Meta, alleging that the company used unauthorized copies of their books to train its generative AI models. While Meta has denied any wrongdoing, newly unsealed ...
A trove of newly released documents reveals Meta’s plans to use book piracy site LibGen to train its AI models. A trove of newly released documents reveals Meta’s plans to use book piracy site LibGen ...
As part of their livelihood, there are many leadership strategists, consultants, thinkers, and practitioners who write books. Any of these authors also have a complicated relationship with LibGen. For ...
Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...
Sarah Silverman participates in a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2012. (Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Flickr) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — What do comedian Sarah Silverman, award-winning ...