Authors Cry Foul as Tech Giants Use Pirated Books to Train AI Without Permission

Nearly 200,000 books are being used without permission to train AI systems by big tech companies.

The books come from a pirated database called Books3 spanning all genres.

Books help AI learn language, but authors are upset their intimate work is being exploited.

Prolific authors like Nora Roberts and Min Jin Lee call it "theft" and want compensation.

Some authors feel helpless to fight the AI trend, while others want their books to educate AI.