I Asked Meta’s Chatbot What It Thought of My Books. What I Learned Was Unsettling.

Photo illustration by Slate. Images via Getty Images Plus. Article by Fred Kaplan. Slate – September 26, 2023.

When I learned that Meta’s programmers downloaded 183,000 books for a database to teach the company’s generative A.I. machines how to write, I was curious whether any of my own books had been fed into the crusher. Alex Reisner of the Atlantic has provided a handy search tool—type in an author’s name, out comes all of his or her books that the LLaMA used. I typed “Fred Kaplan” and found […]

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