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Stephen Downes

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Referencing an article in the Atlantic that is, naturally, behind a paywall, this petition launched by The Society of Authors demands "that Meta is held to account by the UK government following allegations in the U.S. that authors' works have been used without permission or remuneration to train its AI model." It would not surprise me at all that Meta would simply disregard copyright law in pursuit of the AI genie, just as it would not surprise me at all to see the same company vigorously prosecute third party scraping of its websites to collect data for their own purposes. Via Sheila MacNeill.

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