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My Thoughts on Meta Pirating Millions of Books, Including Mine, to Train their AI

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Felix I.D. Dimaro
Mar 24, 2025
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Over the weekend, I found out about The Atlantic’s article exposing Meta, the company that runs Facebook and Instagram, for pirating 7.5 million books, and 81 million research papers to educate their AI model, Llama 3. I heard of this from an indie author who was reasonably outraged on behalf of the writers who were exploited. The Atlantic also publishe…

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