🔗 linkblog: Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

Tue, 05 May 2026 16:04:38 -0400

This is a good example of how thorny the AI problem is, and why I strongly prefer a digital labor critique to a copyright critique. Yes, I’m mad that Meta trained their models on my work, but I don’t think the answer is to strengthen Elsevier or Cengage’s copyright claims.

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🔗 linkblog: Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying