BodhipaksaSep 26, 2023

I've just discovered that Meta illegally used one of my books ("I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha") to train its AI.

They are paraphrasing (uncredited) the contents of my book to make money.

I am not okay with this.

Sarah Silverman and others have started lawsuits. I hope some of the less rich among us can team up and do likewise.

h/t @petergleick

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/?gift=QdM39RGtR94-pmclr4oVwi9lpuV63yswBnoweowTTIM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&s=03

These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech

Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.

The Atlantic
Show threadkobra
@bodhipaksa @petergleick apologies if this is a dumb question but, what if the AI got that summary from say, the ingestion of a bunch of Reddit comments discussing your book but not actually your book itself?
Sep 27, 2023 at 2:06pmIceCubesApp
Show threadBodhipaksaSep 27, 2023
@kobra_ @petergleick It's not a dumb question, but it's one you wouldn't have to ask if you read even the first paragraph of the article I linked to 🙂
Show threadkobraSep 27, 2023

@bodhipaksa @petergleick gotcha, I obviously don’t care enough to do that. Thanks for responding though, have a good day.

Edit: actually I DID go back and click the article and still didn’t see the information I asked about. I truly don’t care anymore though, no longer interested in learning more about this situation.