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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Frazer Harrison / Getty; Everett Collection. Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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AI programs train on questions they’re later tested on. So how do we know if they’re getting smarter?
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Search the Hollywood AI Database
Use this search tool to see how writing from 139,000 movies and TV shows has trained generative AI.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law
The technology might finally bend copyright past the breaking point, upending what it means to have a creative society in the process.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI
Nobel-winning authors, Dungeons and Dragons, Christian literature, and erotica all serve as datapoints for the machine.
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