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Why aren't more people outraged at Meta's theft of millions of books to train its AI? Simple. We teach people not to value art.

Image from literary hub's article about Meta's data theft. AI are trained on stolen material, it's a tale as old as... itself. Recently, Meta have been found to have stolen millions of books to train its late to the party AI. Chances are, your favourite author had their book stolen (I guess to balance things out, your least favourite author did too). Why is theft on this scale not causing more outrage? We’ve been trained not to care… we’ve spent years, decades even, telling s

Timothy Dobson

Aug 75 min read