Meta employees turned their attention to Library Genesis, or LibGen, one of the largest of the pirated libraries that circulate online. It currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from “MZ”—an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta aka Facebook rips off millions of authors. Is Steve among them?
Social media is a cancer on society as well as a boon. AI is likely to be too if it doesn’t kill us.
I’m not a social media user but the observable effects seem largely negative; it generates enormous wealth and influence for some pretty sleazy people and has been devastating to our young people and our national discourse.
I looked it up at one point out of curiosity, and yes, a number of Steve’s works are among them.