Tech companies are getting even richer by vacuuming up the work of writers without permission.
of more than 191,000 e-books that have been used to train the generative AI systems being developed by Meta, Bloomberg and others. It turns out that four of my seven books are in the data set, called Books3. Whoa.Not only did I not give permission for my books to be used to generate AI products, but I also wasn’t even consulted about it. I had no idea this was happening. Neither did my publishers, Penguin Random House and Macmillan .
Scott Galloway, a New York University marketing professor, best-selling author and podcast aficionado, thinks writers of all stripes should be focusing their ire on the likes of Microsoft, Google and Meta, not Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global, as they did in the recently concluded Hollywood writers strike.on the Pivot podcast that 70 percent of Nasdaq’s gains in the first half of 2023 came from seven technology companies, most of which had AI product offerings.
Right now, a few authors joining together to sue the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is a bit of a David-vs.-Goliath situation. Book publishers need to join this fight. Magazine publishers need to join this fight. Newspaper publishers and their billionaire owners, such as Jeff Bezos , John Henry and Patrick Soon-Shiong, must join this fight.
To get companies with a combined market value in the trillions of dollars to stop stealing intellectual capital from writers might even require congressional action. The sooner the better.The Washington Post accepts opinion articles on any topic. We welcome submissions on local, national and international issues. We publish work that varies in length and format, including multimedia.
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