I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft | Toby Walsh

Companies claim this is fair use'. I think it's a digital heist

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Australia's close-knit literary community - from writers and agents through to the Australian Society of Authors - have reacted with outrage. Black Inc, the publisher of the Quarterly Essay as well as fiction and nonfiction books by many prominent writers, had asked consent from its authors to train AI models on their work and then share the revenue with those authors.

Now I have a dog in this race. Actually two dogs. I have published four books with Black Inc, have a fifth coming out next month, and have a contract for a sixth by the end of the year. And I have also been an AI researcher for 40 years, training AI models with data.