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Meta allegedly used pirated books to train AI. Australian authors have objected, but US courts may decide if this is ‘fair use’

  • Written by The Conversation

Companies developing AI models, such as OpenAI and Meta, train their systems on enormous datasets. These consist of text from newspapers, books (often sourced from unauthorised repositories), academic publications and various internet sources. The material includes works that are copyrighted.

The Atlantic magazine recently alleged Meta, parent...

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