Michael McGuire
@michaelmcguire.bsky.social
Journalist, devoted follower of Celtic, Sydney Swans and Norwood. Author of Never a True Word and Flight Risk. Also to be found at michaelmcguireauthor.com
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One of the most interesting conversations I had this year was with Matt Clifford, who is advising the UK government on AI and had just written a report on it. He claimed never to have heard of AIs being trained on stolen copyrighted material.
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
One of the most interesting conversations I had this year was with Matt Clifford, who is advising the UK government on AI and had just written a report on it. He claimed never to have heard of AIs being trained on stolen copyrighted material.
Here I am. Now what?
November 19, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Here I am. Now what?