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WRITERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST AI ABUSE
On 3 April, Gary Dalkin writes, members of the Society of Authors, including Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier and Daljit Nagra, protested outside Meta’s London headquarters following the revelation in The Atlantic that Meta – which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads and Messenger – had used the online pirate ‘library’, LibGen, of 7.5 million books and 81 million academic papers to ‘train’ its Llama 3 AI software.
In March The Atlantic released an online tool which enables writers to see if their work has been misused in this way. Within minutes I found multiple books which I had edited included in the dataset, among them last year’s international bestseller The Thirteenth Child, by Mark deMeza.