Meta/Facebook/Mark Zuckerburg pirated millions of books
Last week The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. The list has more than 7.5 million books that were copied by Meta and other AI companies.
All of my novels were pirated without permission, notice or any payment whatsoever. In the spirit of writers-have-to-eat-too-including me-myself-and-I, and I-never-met-anyone-in-big-tech-who-was-cool, I wasn’t even offered a share in Meta or any AI company for the contribution I made but didn’t agree to.
Here are key links writers and readers might be interested in:
The Authors Guild – What Authors Need to Know
https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/
The Atlantic – Article
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/
The Atlantic Search Tool
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Hope this helps.
ROBERT ELLIS WRITERS BLOG
03/23/2025
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