#metabookthieves — Public Fediverse posts
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https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04/03/why-training-ai-cant-be-ip-theft/
If you are a @societyofauthors member (like I am), and you were there to post about #MetaBookThieves (as I was), and you want to #MakeItFair and make Meta #DoTheWriteThing (as I absolutely do), give giovanh's essay a read.
> What’s being (rightfully!) objected to is a new kind of *labor issue.*
> Corporations unfairly competing with workers: labor issue. Use of new technology to displace the workers who enabled it: labor issue.
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Supporting authors and writers today as Meta is accused of using shadow libraries of thousands of pirated books to train their AI.
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves #Meta -
Meta stole two of my books from a piracy site to train AI. I support the Society of Authors protest today and demand that Meta #DoTheWriteThing and compensate authors for the work they stole.
#MakeItFair #MetaBookThieves -
@bigolifacks @societyofauthors
With respect, the scraping breaches UK copyright law, among others. You may be fine with that, I'm not.