Authors Fight Back Against Tech Giants' Unauthorized Use of Books to Train AI
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AI companies like Meta are using authors' books without permission to train their systems. This is unauthorized use of copyrighted material.
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Authors are starting to fight back with lawsuits against companies like Meta and OpenAI. More authors need to join the fight.
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AI announcements have boosted the stock prices of companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Google by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Writers need to band together and lobby against big tech's unauthorized use of their work. They should be paid for their content.
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Book publishers, magazine publishers, newspaper publishers need to join the fight against big tech companies profiteering from authors' work. Congressional action may be needed.
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