bmMay 12, 2025

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.

Why training AI can't be IP theft

you can't reserve the right to learn

@PrivacyMattersMay 3, 2025

A federal judge on Thursday questioned Meta Platforms' argument that it can legally use copyrighted works without permission to train its artificial intelligence models.

"I just don't understand how that can be fair use," Chhabria said. 👏

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-meta-case-weighs-key-question-ai-copyright-lawsuits-2025-05-01/

#MetaBookThieves

Show thread@PrivacyMattersApr 25, 2025
Then we also have the issue of theft of property of authors & artists etc by AI companies - one example is #MetaBookThieves
Suswati Basu (巴苏) Apr 3, 2025
Supporting authors and writers today as Meta is accused of using shadow libraries of thousands of pirated books to train their AI.
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves #Meta
Juliet E McKennaApr 3, 2025

If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished.

All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves

Jim RionApr 3, 2025
Say no to LLM theft. Support authors and translators. Sign the petition! #DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves

We Can Make an Impact.
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Lorna PeelApr 3, 2025
Meta stole two of my books from a piracy site to train AI. I support the Society of Authors protest today and demand that Meta #DoTheWriteThing and compensate authors for the work they stole.
#MakeItFair #MetaBookThieves
Show threadKetan JoshiApr 3, 2025
#MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing #MakeItFA
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Ketan JoshiApr 3, 2025
Just a quick one on how mad I am about big tech's slimy extractivism In support of @societyofauthors.bsky.social, who are protesting Meta in London today. societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s... Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/protect-au... #MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing #MakeItFA
The Society of Authors (@societyofauthors.bsky.social)

The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a nicer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training ✒️https://authr.uk/sp40

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Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿Apr 3, 2025

I'll be there in spirit...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stolen-books-authors-to-protest-in-london-against-ai-trained-using-shadow-library

#MetaBookThieves #DoTheWriteThing #MakeItFair

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models

The Guardian