Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

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Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

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Stephen King, Zadie Smith, and Michael Pollan are among thousands of writers whose copyrighted works are being used to train large language models.

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