Move Fast and Steal Things: Meta Pirated 53 of My Books and Stories to Train Their AI

A fabulous analysis in The Atlantic by Alex Reisner The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem shows how employees at Meta, all the way up to “MZ” (presumably Zuckerberg), chose to steal 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers to train its flagship AI model, Llama 3.