British authors ‘absolutely sick’ to discover books on ‘shadow library’ allegedly used by Meta to train AI

British authors ‘absolutely sick’ to discover books on ‘shadow library’ allegedly used by Meta to train AI

British authors have told Sky News they felt “absolutely sick” to see their book titles appear in a “shadow library” allegedly used by tech giant Meta to help develop artificial intelligence software.

“It’s my whole life,” said one best-selling novelist. “The thought somebody in Silicon Valley or wherever is taking that work to produce identikit fake AI versions… it’s so upsetting.”

The tool to search the LibGen database was published by The Atlantic last week after court…

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