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Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

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Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

www.theatlantic.com

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TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

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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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I find it ironic that OP posted an archive URL.
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  That occurred to me, but IIRC, The Atlantic has a paywall without Firefox shenanigans.

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