No permission from authors: thousands of books found pirated to train AI

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Artificial Intelligence is taking the creative sector by storm, but not always in a good way.An AI training dataset called Books3 was found to have illegally scraped over 180 000 books, including many by Australian authors.Copyright activists remain concerned about the issue, which has also deepened conversations about ethics and generative AI.

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