https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/04/03/why-training-ai-cant-be-ip-theft/

If you are a @societyofauthors member (like I am), and you were there to post about #MetaBookThieves (as I was), and you want to #MakeItFair and make Meta #DoTheWriteThing (as I absolutely do), give giovanh's essay a read.

> What’s being (rightfully!) objected to is a new kind of *labor issue.*

> Corporations unfairly competing with workers: labor issue. Use of new technology to displace the workers who enabled it: labor issue.

#Meta stole my books: Cuentos incatásticos and Pachamama, diosa extraordinaria. Meta used the #LibGen dataset, full of pirated works, to train their AI.

META must #DoTheWriteThing

Please continue to support authors by purchasing our work and using your local library #makeitfair

My books are available at https://linktr.ee/helenpugh

#bookstodon #histodon

Meta stole my book. This does not make me special: apparently they stole pretty much everyone's. Specifically, Meta used the Library Genesis (LibGen) dataset, which is full of pirated works, to train their AI.

I call on META to #DoTheWriteThing - authors must be asked first before their works are used, and we must be fairly compensated.

As a member of the Society of Authors I support all their demands: https://societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/soa-day-of-action-following-allegations-of-metas-mass-theft-of-authors-work/

Authors: find out if your book was stolen https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action.

Today UK authors are protesting against this theft.

Copyright law is clear: to use a creator’s copyrighted work, you need to get permission and agree payment.

#DoTheWriteThing