Meta pirating authors

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​United States Senate
After his clerkships, Senator Josh Hawley worked in private practice as an appellate litigator at the law firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) from 2008 to 2011.

​According to Hawley, Meta (FB, Instagram, WhatsApp, Meta Platforms Technologies, formerly Oculus VR, rebranded to Meta Quest, Meta Pay, Messenger, and Threads) trained its AI model to lie about its own sources. Others are named. David Baldacci is an American who writes suspense novels and legal thrillers. I use Google AI, rather than OpenAI, and verfiy everything it gives me, quote what I borrow, and earn zero for the trouble.

Wikipedia on Meta

• 2018 $12.6 million on lobbying, 51 lobbyists
• 2019 $16.7 million on lobbying, 71 lobbyists
• 2020 $19.7 million on lobbying, 79 lobbyists
• 2020, largest Big Tech spender on lobbying

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Righteous indignation? Ha-ha, Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the Temple. 15 And they came to Jerusalem. And when he was entered into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the chairs of them that sold doves. ​Aquinas wrote an estimated eight million words. Pirated. My novel has been pirated. The fantasy co-written by Alexander and posted on YouTube, which is free, has been pirated.

Edward Lee, Professor of Law, Santa Clara School of Law, Jesuit
https://law.scu.edu/faculty/professors/​

Library Genesis
Google AI Overview
Is Library Genesis legal?
No, Library Genesis (LibGen) is not legal. It's a "shadow library" that distributes copyrighted materials without permission, which constitutes copyright infringement. While it provides access to a vast amount of content, including books and academic papers, the legality of downloading and using these materials from LibGen is questionable.