Perspective: My books were used without permission to train AI models. What now?

In 2023, nine of my books had their copyright infringed, along with another 180K titles, when all of these books were scraped at a pirate website for inclusion in the Books3 dataset, to train the LLMs of the big tech companies.

In the recent Meta heist of 7 million books from the LibGen pirate website, all of my books, including foreign editions, were also included on that site. So the copyright of my life’s work has been infringed, within a few years, by tech companies training their…