Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan among authors whose work has potentially been pirated by US-based Books3 dataset to train generative AI
on Wednesday revealed the works of Peter Carey, Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, Anna Funder, Christos Tsiolkas and Thomas Keneally, as well as Flanagan and dozens of other high-profile Australian authors, were included in the pirated dataset containing more than 180,000 titles.
ASA chief executive, Olivia Lanchester, described the Books3 dataset as piracy on an industrial scale. “Turning a blind eye to the legitimate rights of copyright owners threatens to diminish already precarious creative careers,” she said.
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