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Meta Stole BOOKS for their Ai

I saw this on Bluesky and dropping the article link here. In the article there is a spot were you can search for a authors name.

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can read an analysis about LibGen and its contents here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool for movie and television writing used to train AI here.

@thebibliosphere they stole your books also. :-(

Fucking Meta.

While people saying that Tim Minear must've read a lot of fanfics to come up with the recent episodes of 911 is funny, I do want to remind people that writers aren't allowed to read fanfiction because of copyright reasons. While there is no official law about it, writers of any kind are legally advised not to read fanfiction. If there's any hint at a show writer or producer being influenced by a fanfic they read, it will cause a lot of legal issues.

In the 1970s a writer from a Star Trek show had a conversation with fans who told him a lot of their ideas about future episodes. The writer had already planned some of those ideas. When the episodes aired, the fans demanded credit. He was able to submit proof the story already existed before their conversation, but it was still a mess. Another author had to completely scrap her already written novel because she opened fan mail with fanfiction that had similar plot points. She couldn't prove that the story already existed before opening the fan mail.

Because of that, lawyers always advise writers not to read fanfiction or even interact with it. Even if there is proof of opening a letter, document, or link, it will turn into legal hell.

Some people know that when people say Minear took certain plots from fanfics it is a joke. But I know there will also be people who will take it seriously. (I'm autistic and if I didn't know this, I would have taken it seriously as well.) And idk, that kinda seems like dangerous territory.

Remember reading is political. Buy a physical copy of every book you read.

"In Australia, a man was kept alive for 100 days on an artificial heart made of titanium while a donor heart was eventually found.

This is the longest-ever period that a man has been kept alive by an artificial heart, giving its developers encouragement that it can play a major role in supporting waiting list patients whose hearts are failing.

5 months ago, a man in his forties received the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) after experiencing heart failure. The TAH has no pumps, valves, or other moving parts susceptible to wear. Instead, magnetic levitation permits a single rotor to pump blood to the body through both ventricles.

He was able to leave the hospital even, before a donor heart was found that was transplanted successfully.

In a statement, BiVACOR, St. Vincent’s Hospital where the surgery was carried out, and Monash University which provided the grant funding for the development of the TAH, said that the result is a sign the artificial heart could potentially offer a long-term option for people suffering from heart failure.

BiVACOR’s founder, Australian bioengineer Daniel Timms, who invented the device, said it was “exhilarating to see decades of work come to fruition.”

“The entire BiVACOR team is deeply grateful to the patient and his family for placing their trust in our Total Artificial Heart,” he said in the statement. “Their bravery will pave the way for countless more patients to receive this lifesaving technology.”

In the United States, there are around 3,500 donor hearts made available every year for more than 4,400 people who join the waiting list.

The TAH has already been tested in an early feasibility study in search of eventual FDA approval. 5 patients received the device, CNN reports, with the first being last July, when a 58-year-old man suffering end-stage heart failure received the implant during surgery at Texas Medical Center.

The four others also received it successfully, and organizers hope to expand it to 15 patients."

-via Good News Network, March 18, 2025

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Time for bed 🛌

he’s incredible