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Senator slams Big Tech's role in 'pirating' copyrighted books for AI training purposes

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out artificial intelligence companies like Meta for their alleged role in taking more than 200 terabytes of published works from authors without paying them a dime to make AI smarter.The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing Wednesday to examine the AI industry’s ingestion of copyrighted works for AI training.The hearing was held just weeks after two federal judges in San Francisco ruled that AI companies like Meta and Anthropic may use books without permission to train AI systems.During Wednesday’s hearing, professor and leg...

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