Do judge a book by its cover...everyone else does!

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI models Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence. Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

YouTube video by The Darkness

Alt: a black and white photo of a little boy sitting at a desk with his hand on his face .

Alt: Two women (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) are sitting in a field of grass holding flowers.

Alt: a screenshot of a video of a hand writing on flaming paper with the words " i quite liked this "