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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

‘No consent’: Australian authors ‘livid’ that Meta may have used their books to train AI

Author Holden Sheppard is ‘fucking livid’ to think that his work could have been used to train Meta’s AI.
Author Holden Sheppard is ‘fucking livid’ to think that his work could have been used to train Meta’s AI. Photograph: Mark Flower/Supplied

Australian authors say they are “livid” and feel violated that their work was included in an allegedly pirated dataset of books Meta used to train its AI.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is being sued by authors in the United States, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and the comedian Sarah Silverman, for copyright infringement.

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