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Meta's AI book heist - what to do + the history of hot cross buns [#182]

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Nika Talbot
Mar 30, 2025
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Last week, The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5M books and 81M research papers called Library Genesis (LibGen) โ€“ with pirated works allegedly used by Meta to train its AI systems.

They talked about doing it lawfully, but acquiring the text would be an "incredibly slow" process โ€“ "They take like 4+ weeks to deliver data" and "unreasonaโ€ฆ

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