{"id":4184,"date":"2025-08-17T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4184\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:31:08","slug":"declan-lynch-hey-tech-bros-leave-our-books-alone-theyre-not-fodder-for-your-ai-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4184\/","title":{"rendered":"Declan Lynch: Hey, tech bros, leave our books alone \u2014 they\u2019re not fodder for your AI machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">I have discovered that two of my books have been scraped for literary \u2018content\u2019 by our tech overlords\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Harry Burton, after Gerald Scarfe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/urton AI Floyd toon.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cartoon by Harry Burton, after Gerald Scarfe<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The headline naturally drew me in: \u2018AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified.\u2019 Written by Ashley Belanger in Ars Technica magazine, the story covered a lawsuit raised in the US by three authors. An AI company claims the case could \u201cfinancially ruin\u201d their entire industry if millions of claimants join the action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ah, that would be a pity wouldn\u2019t it? Just when everything is going so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have discovered that two of my books have been scraped for literary \u2018content\u2019 by our tech overlords&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,4573,356,18,117,19,17,1721,4574],"class_list":{"0":"post-4184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-declan-lynch","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","16":"tag-patrick-odonovan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}