Discovery and Legal Action if Meta Pirated Your Creative Work, as it Did Mine, to Train its AI

The Facebook parent company has been identified with having pirated millions of copyrighted fiction and non-fiction writings.

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Speaking only for myself, but sensing many fellow writers follow suit, I pour my soul into my writing.

This, of course, is not the point when it comes to one’s writing being stolen. Stolen, that is, as in plagiarized or pirated.

It is the latter point upon which we will focus in this piece, specifically as it relates the eye-opening news that broke March 20 in The Atlantic:

The Unbelievable Scale of AI's Pirated-Books Problem

In brief, to be competitive with models such as ChatGPT, Meta’s flagship AI system, Llama 3, needed to be trained on what the article called “high-quality writing.”

However, legally attaining the sheer volume of desired texts would be prohibitive both time-wise and cost-wise.