British authors 'absolutely sick' to discover books on 'shadow library' allegedly used by Meta to train AI

Authors accuse Mark Zuckerberg of 'stealing' their work to train his artificial intelligence models

Angus crime author joins Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn in ‘theft’ battle against AI behemoths

Former Carnoustie High pupil Ed James discovered his entire work had been included in a pirated data set used to train an Artificial Intelligence programme.

Meta AI book scraping: 'We need to speak up', say authors

Authors say their books have been taken without permission and used to train Meta's AI systems.

Many Swedish authors are in the “shadow library” that Meta has used for a new AI model. “A huge overstep,” says Anja Gatu, chairwoman of the Swedish Writers’ Association.

We knew what was going on but the dimension of stealing books to nourish the AI that has been exposed is chilling. Has there been any kind of financial compensation, or even an honorary mention? No. Nothing at all. Pure looting If you are an author it is very likely that you feel threatened by the consequences of Artificial Intelligence (IA). Well, you have reason to feel threatened also by the origins. I explain myself. The manufacture of AI ap…

Several prominent British authors are demanding that the British government hold Meta accountable for stealing their texts for the purpose of training AI. “I’m a crime writer, I know theft when I see it,” says Val McDermid.