Alex Reisner’s shocking new article at The Atlantic on Meta’s unbelievable brazen piracy operations is must reading:The book is mostly about a database called Libgen, known to contain pirated material. Meta chose to use it, apparently knowing that it contained pirated material, to train the LLM Llama 3. Thanks to a search tool provided by the Atlantic, I discovered tonight that in this one database alone Meta pirated over 100 of my books and scientific articles. In every single case, they used t...