As my father might ask, “Ba, are they getting rich of your fame?” And this is the first book by a Barry Friedman that comes up?
Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex Reisner previously made available for the Books3 AI training dataset last year, but this new list has more than 7.5 million books that were copied, at least in part if not in full, by Meta and other AI companies for their AI systems. It is not clear whether Meta downloaded and used every book in LibGen.
A young writer once asked Norman Mailer if the novel was dead. Mailer responded, “Don’t worry. The novel will bury you.”
AI just bought a whole bunch of shovels.
Buy it here before you buy it there.
This is the epitome of all epitomes, of which there are only a few.
Jeez, the marital dysfunction of just the opening chapter of that book would break most AI's burgeoning sentience. Almost broke mine.