#Meta stole my books: Cuentos incatásticos and Pachamama, diosa extraordinaria. Meta used the #LibGen dataset, full of pirated works, to train their AI.
META must #DoTheWriteThing
Please continue to support authors by purchasing our work and using your local library #makeitfair
My books are available at https://linktr.ee/helenpugh
Supporting authors and writers today as Meta is accused of using shadow libraries of thousands of pirated books to train their AI.
#DoTheWriteThing #MetaBookThieves #Meta
Meta have stolen the work of 1000s of writers to train their AI. All of my books were included in their illegal action.
Today UK authors are protesting against this theft.
Copyright law is clear: to use a creator’s copyrighted work, you need to get permission and agree payment.
Copyright law is clear. If you want to use a creator's original, copyright work for any purpose, you need to get their permission and agree payment.
Copyright law does not need revising. It needs enforcing.
#DoTheWriteThing
Following the news about Meta's mass theft of writers' work to train AI, we're joining the #DoTheWriteThing day of action today
- Make a noise on social media
- Write to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
- Tell Meta they don't have the right to use your work
@bigolifacks @societyofauthors
With respect, the scraping breaches UK copyright law, among others. You may be fine with that, I'm not.
Demonstrating against the dishonest AI companies, demanding the protection of copyright and compensation for past theft.
I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April
You might be seeing a few of these today if you follow any authors, but we are not one bit happy about Meta chucking our work into its shonky LLM and then burning the planet to power it.
@societyofauthors are organising a protest against Meta tomorrow - physically, at Granary Square, London; and digitally through #DoTheWriteThing:
(it's not the scraping itself that's the problem, nor is it the mathematical analysis of that data—it's Meta's 𝘶𝘴𝘦 of the LLM produced from that analysis:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/20/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain/)
Entertainment CEOs say they can’t pay writers while they are making record money, personally. Shareholders should be in full rebellion against it.
#DoTheWriteThing #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAstrong #DGAStrong #IATSEstrong #TeamstersStrong #UnionStrong #union #unions #ExecutiveCompensation #WealthGap #economics
h/t @arc315
Couldn’t sleep, so I made this.
The producers need to make a deal. The unions are uniting against them.
Today would be a good day to deal.
“Sir, our writers room crashed, the AI is offline and the cancelation numbers are growing. We’re going to be a billion dollars in the hole by EOD.”
This is the future the AMPTP are leading their companies to. Make a deal.
https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/max-down-not-working-login-errors-1235622581/
So Seth Rogen summed up one of the issues with streaming to Variety at an Apple TV+ premiere.
You can help support those impacted by the strike by giving directly to the Entertainment Community Fund (for "Direct my gift to" choose "Film and Television"):
http://give.actorsfund.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2857&2857.donation=form1&mfc_pref=T
What can you do to help writers get a fair deal from producers during the #WritersStrike?
• Join a picket line if you can 
• Spread word about your support of the #writers and post using their hashtags
#WGAStrike #DotheWriteThing & #WGAStrong
via More Perfect Union
#Fans4WGA
I strongly stand in solidarity with the writers. #DoTheWriteThing
Reach out to the studios to let them know that you support the writers.
If you show your support on social media, you can use the hashtag #DoTheWriteThing
(My own unsanctioned proposal is that if things get really bad, consider dropping one of your streaming services AND LET THEM KNOW WHY. All they care about are subscriber numbers. That will get their attention.)
