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.
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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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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/technology/john-marsden-wouldn-t-take-facebook-s-money-even-if-it-paid-him-20230920-p5e689
