Kate Mosse, Tracy Chevalier, Daljit Nagra and other members of the Writers’ Society (SOA) indicate Meta -HQ outside London King’s Cross today on Thursday, April 3, when millions of pirates were used in Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) model (LLAMA 3 3.
The presentation takes place two weeks after Atlantic released a database to be searched with more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. Meta claimed the contents of this shadow library known as Library Genesis (or ‘Libgen’) to train AI according to US court documents.
Today’s demonstration has been organized by AJ West, a member and author of SOA, who claim that his books were among the works available in Libgen. “To get the beautiful books to tear it without permission and without a reward for an ai monster, it seems like I have come,” he said. “The writers have been too kind of too long for too long. It’s polite enough, it’s time to fight!” The writers have been marked by The #metabookthieves of the technical giant.
Soa has called for an urgent meeting with Lisa Nandy with cultural, media and sports secretaries and publishes an open letter “demanding answers” from Meta. The document is delivered to the meta in the demonstration and sent to the company’s headquarters in the United States.
SOA described the use of illegal information on META instead of the Licensing writers to be “acceptable” through existing channels. The number of impressive books is unclear, but the library varies from fiction to textbooks, poetry translations. Soa added: “This is a protected work of copyright and the creators must consent and offer appropriate fee.”
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SOA Administrative Committee President Vanessa Fox O’Loughl, also known as crime writer Sam Blake, said: “Meta has stolen books so that it can repeat creative content, potentially set these same writers out of business. Representatives.
Mosse added: “For writers and all those who deserve their hard work, originality and imagination, this is another David and Goliath moment. Copyright exist, terms and conditions of licensing are solid, the law is clear.
Anna Ganley, CEO of SOA, said: “Writers are rightly in arms Atlantic Published by court documents with detailed use of genesis in the Library of Information Library, one of the most notorious online libraries of a pirate book to train its artificial intelligence model 3. The fact that these pirates’ online libraries still exist is bad enough, but when global companies use them to use illegally for shocks and use unlawful factors. Mark, my words, we need action. “
Tom Weldon, CEO of Penguin Random House UK, supported today by saying: “
At Penguin Random House UK, we are an important investor in human creativity, and our investment – together with the authors – is based on the basic principle that as a society we value creative work and we have mechanisms to reward it. We strongly defend the intellectual property of our authors and artists, and support the day of the authors’ society to protest META’s obvious ignoring the protected of copyrighted works.
“We firmly believe that unauthorized consumption of copyright content to train generative AI models is a copyright infringement and we share the deep frustration and concern of the writers.
“We will continue to cooperate closely with the publishers’ association and the broader creative industry to urge the government to ensure that the copyright system of the United Kingdom’s gold standard is still protected and respected, so the rights of rights are rewarded quite for their work.”
A peaceful demonstration occurs MetalLondon offices (11-22 Canal Reach, London N1C 4BE, King’s Cross) today, but participants should meet Granary Square, King’s Cross at 1:00 pm, starting at 1:30 pm. Contact Teddy McDonald for more information.
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