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The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Zadie Smith, Stephen King and Rachel Cusk’s pirated works used to train AI

Author Stephen King.
Author Stephen King. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images

Zadie Smith, Stephen King, Rachel Cusk and Elena Ferrante are among thousands of authors whose pirated works have been used to train artificial intelligence tools, a story in The Atlantic has revealed.

More than 170,000 titles were fed into models run by companies including Meta and Bloomberg, according to an analysis of “Books3” – the dataset harnessed by the firms to build their AI tools.

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