DEEP CUTS Episode 45: META Pirated My Books to Train AI

Scott Sigler Slices: SLAY

Empty Set Entertainment

Books, Fiction, Arts, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What’s a hard-working novelist to do when an internet oligarch steals books to train AI? What if that internet oligarch steals over seven million books? Scott & A discuss the potential fallout. Deep Cuts is created by Scott Sigler and A B Kovacs Produced by Steve Riekeberg Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2025 by Empty Set Entertainment Anyone out there planning to rage against the AI machine? If there’s a blog involved, save 99% on your 3-year .com domain by using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG. You’ll be entertained, at least! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	One does not simply download 7.5 million pirated books and use them to train AI.
0:08.2	One simply does not do this.
0:10.2	FDO, that's exactly what Meta did.
0:13.9	Well, then one does not simply download the FDO's pirated books and use them to train AI.
0:20.5	Uh, FDO looks like META did that too.
0:24.8	This is evil that does not sleep.
0:27.7	And the great AI is ever watchful.
0:30.8	We'll discuss meta's shameless piracy of millions of works right after this quick break.
0:45.0	How does weather work?
0:48.0	What's the secret to having a great conversation?
0:51.6	How do most wealthy people get that way?
0:55.4	These are just a few of the topics we've recently covered on my podcast, Something You Should Know. Each episode covers multiple topics that are likely
1:01.3	relevant to you. I'm the host, Mike Carruthers, and listen, we've got over a thousand episodes,
1:08.2	over 4,000 mostly five-star reviews. I invite you to check out something you should know,
1:14.4	wherever you listen. Welcome to Deep Cuts, the bonus episode of the Scott Sigler Slice's
1:24.1	Fiction Podcast, where a sci-fi author and an audiobook narrator discuss things and stuff
1:28.8	in the world of fiction and pop culture. I am Scott Sigler, sci-fi horror author known far and wide
1:34.2	as the future Dark Overlord. And I am A.B. Sigler, publisher and M.T. Set Entertainment and
1:39.5	audiobook narrator. And on this deep cuts, we're talking about meta-pirating Scott's books to train
1:45.6	their AI. A reminder, this is a bonus episode of the Scott Sigler-Slices podcast, not part of any
1:50.5	story. You don't have to listen to keep up on the tale I'm telling now, but I think you will like
1:54.5	this peek behind the storyteller curtain. You guys, we are going to talk about this. If you are into books at all, you have seen this probably
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