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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 months ago

I'll finally be able to finish a book!

[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 8 points 2 months ago

It's not even empty!

It lists all the authors' names in it.

[-] Denvil@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Fingers Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug

[-] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Doug Fingers Doug

…nice try!

[-] lmmarsano@group.lt 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they mad
and they're taking it out on the trees. What did the trees do to deserve that?

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Surely they're not actually printing them all?

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

The real trick is to cheat honestly... Thats what everybody does now. Feed them garbage will the goof ball professor grade it or will it be given to AI. We need to eat the rich asap

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Publishers usually get about 85 to 90% of the revenue on printed books, and 75% of the revenue on ebooks.

If using copyrighted data becomes illegal, they will get 100% of the profit from selling their data most likely.

This book should be aimed at them.

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

still cool protest though

[-] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 months ago

I think I might up load this as an epub to my favorite trackers

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