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Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’m bringing you some of our top stories before my colleague Mostafa Rachwani takes over.
Our top story this morning is that thousands of books from some of Australia’s most celebrated authors have allegedly been pirated by the US-based Books3 dataset and used to train generative AI for corporations such as Meta and Bloomberg. Richard Flanagan, who found 10 of his works had been used, said: “I felt as if my soul had been strip-mined and I was powerless to stop it.”
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