You may have seen that many thousands of books have been stolen to train AI. Not just literary classics and best sellers, but loads of self published books too, including some of mine.
Here's a link to check if your books have been used in this way.
Here's a link for an easy way to complain, and attempt to get this stopped, if you discover your books have been used.
Please help real human authors by reading their books (and make sure to buy them from not pirate sites, or to borrow from libraries or legitimate subscription services).
Thanks to Alyson for this link from the SoA about what we can do.
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5 comments:
Thank you, I will check for my books!
Thanks Patsy appreciate that, I don't have any books just contributions to books, articles & short stories. I once had an article of mine submitted to a specialist magazine reproduced & published by an inhouse writer, I couldn't believe it but didn't feel I could do anything about it. Not quite AI I know but it still rankles (as you can see!)
Thank you, Patsy, for keeping this uppermost in our minds. I'm not even sure if 'AI' is the correct terminology they are overusing for this blanket expression meaning 'stolen'. I've been aware for some years now that words online can be added to a mix as a 'learning tool' for the already billionaires. What I never can get is how it has become a default that you have to (if possible?) opt OUT of. And as for Sheelagh, I'd be incandescent! I'd have to say something.😡 (Might not make me popular with the magazine, but hey - they wouldn't be that popular with me! 😉)
How can this be construed as anything other than blatant theft? I have read the Society of Authors article Alyson pointed out and will be following up. As far as I can see, I have not been stolen from in this manner (yet), but the situation calls for solidarity, surely. Thanks, Patsy, for providing the opportunity to share thoughts and information around this.
I once had an identical experience as Sheelagh - I sent an article to a local paper and it was reprinted word for word, exactly as I had written it - apart from the additions of 'said Sue' , 'explains Sue' or 'adds Sue' as though I had been interviewed. When I wrote and complained, they said they had had to rewrite bits of it - but they hadn't - it was word for word. That was about 20 years ago and I am still cross!!! Sue A
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