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   azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 22:51:39 JST azteclady

   #IndieAuthors, please share: so-called #ArtificialIntelligence was trained by scrapping Smashwords--literally thousands of books; genre romance is disproportionately represented: if you had books there in 2015, your books may have been scrapped for illegal use without your consent:
   ""we find evidence that BookCorpus directly violated copyright restrictions for hundreds of books that should not have been redistributed through a free dataset."

   https://towardsdatascience.com/dirty-secrets-of-bookcorpus-a-key-dataset-in-machine-learning-6ee2927e8650

   https://github.com/jackbandy/bookcorpus-datasheet

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     azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 22:51:38 JST azteclady

     in reply to

     • CathyPegau
     • Jody Wallace

     Please understand: these fuckers have been scrapping content, including copyrighted, clearly marked, commercial, published content, not 'just' fanfiction--titles from @CourtneyMilan from @CathyPegau from @jodywallace AmyJoCousins and many others; there are close to 20 thousand titles they've been scrapping for the past eight years or so.

     (see links in previous post)

     @romancelandia

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 22:57:27 JST pettter

     in reply to

     • CathyPegau
     • Jody Wallace

     @herhandsmyhands

     "Copyright for me but not for thee"

     - Large corporations
     @CathyPegau @jodywallace @romancelandia