For years, tech companies have secretly used pirated e-book libraries to train their generative artificial intelligence models. "It horrifies me," says Kansas author Bryn Greenwood, whose books ...

As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline ...

Former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams is among a number of authors whose books may have been accessed by technology company Meta to train their latest AI (artificial intelligence) model.

Technology AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks. Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are ...

With that, you can look for your favorite authors to find if they have been used to train AI models from the likes of OpenAI, Mistral, and Meta.

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Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public posts, including on Facebook, to train its chatbot.

The OpenAI issue was caused by an "upstream provider," according to the artificial intelligence organization.

Australian authors are among those caught up in Meta’s use of LibGen, an illegal book repository, to train its AI. What are the legal implications?

And in October, meteorologists used AI weather forecasting models to accurately predict that Hurricane Milton would land near Siesta Key, Florida. AI is also being used to alert members of the ...