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When you use AI, you are probably benefiting from stolen material, explains Toby Walsh, who has been an AI researcher for 40+ years. He calls these tools the “greatest heist in human history”:
I am outraged at the tech companies like OpenAI, Google and Meta for training their AI models, such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama, on my copyrighted books without either my consent or offering me or Black Inc any compensation.
The tech companies claim this is “fair use”. I don’t see it this way. Last year, at the Sydney Writers’ festival, I called it the greatest heist in human history. All of human culture is being ingested into these AI models for the profit of a few technology companies.