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How Facebook allegedly ripped this beloved author’s books for AI

When one of Australia’s most beloved authors found his books might be being used to train AI models, his first concern wasn’t about getting paid.

John Davidson
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It’s just as well Facebook’s owner, Meta, isn’t offering to pay John Marsden for using 27 of his novels without his permission to train its AI.

The award-winning author of Tomorrow, When the War Began, The Rabbits and dozens more novels, which are among the 191,000 pirated ebooks allegedly used by Meta to train its LLaMa AI model, wouldn’t take the money anyway.

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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com

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