Futurism

Facebook Is Desperately Trying to Keep You From Learning What’s in This Book

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The Verge

Inside Meta’s race to beat OpenAI: ‘We need to learn how to build frontier and win this race’

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 ...
Vanity Fair

This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”

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 ...
Forbes

Authors Challenge Meta’s Use Of Their Books For Training AI

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 ...