Another day, another pirated-books database

The Atlantic has created another search tool to reveal what pirated texts Meta used to train its AI, and once again many of my works appear, including Has the World Ended Yet? and several of my Azrael the Angel Gunslinger stories published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

This is incredibly frustrating as I suspect a company like Meta could certainly afford to pay licensing fees to use works rather than rip off creators (struggling or successful). But as The Atlantic makes clear, the use of pirated works was approved at the highest levels of Meta.

Hopefully there will be some legal action that addresses this scandal. In the meantime, if your AI seems fascinated with homicidal angels and has an unnatural obsession with supernatural six shooters, then you know who to blame.