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Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Authors fume over claims stolen books used to fuel AI

Authors want stronger guardrails after a tech giant allegedly trained its AI on pirated books. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian authors are calling on governments to throw the book at tech giants who ignore copyright, after Meta allegedly used millions of pirated novels to train its artificial intelligence technology.

The book database at the centre of the claims, called Library Genesis, contained novels from a host of well-known Australian writers including Liane Moriarty, Trent Dalton, Tim Winton, Sally Hepworth and Charlotte Wood. 

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