Meta is Stealing Our Words! What Will They Take Next?

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The robots are coming for all of us. Companies like Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, are using books to train their AI machines without asking for permission. Jo did a search on The Atlantic's database of books that AI is using to train its robots to steal our livelihoods and found FIVE of her titles on there. We are now clearly living in the Matrix. It begs the question of what else are these companies hiding and what else could they be stealing from us. We have to care about how Meta uses author's works because it is a reflection of how little they respect anyone's words, thoughts or images. Jo talks to fellow author and podcaster Emma Gray of Love to See It (and the author of A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance) about why the entire publishing world is going bananas about this today. Listen to Emma's podcast Love to See It here https://www.emmarosegray.com/podcast Buy her book A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance. https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Guide-Joining-Resistance-Feminist/dp/0062748084 And you can read The Atlantic story about the database here. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/ And you know you can always buy The Sicilian Inheritance if you feel so inclined. https://www.bluebirdbookstop.com/product-page/pre-order-the-sicilian-inheritance-by-jo-piazza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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