What the Dickens!
Meta's AI book heist - what to do + the history of hot cross buns [#182]
Last week, The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5M books and 81M research papers called Library Genesis (LibGen) – 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 – "They take like 4+ weeks to deliver data" and "unreasona…