Justin L. Self

ONLY ON 26: Appleton author reacts to Meta 'pirating' her books for generative AI "It's disappointing of course to learn your book has been stolen and uploaded to an illegal website," said Appleton science fiction author Rebbeca M. Zornow.

Excerpt from tentatively titled "Four Roses, Three Banks, Two Bullets, One Girl".

60 pages, 19,000+ words and 2 years of procrastination and motivated writing later. Now to find beta readers.

“Frontiers” has some updated “bonus” content. Mostly necessary front matter, but some back matter too - a bit of background on some inspiration within the short story.

Free on Kindle Unlimited, and exclusively at Amazon.

https://a.co/d/hBFkFqY

This is upsetting. It's not just the big-name authors, it's indie authors too.

It takes me a year to write a novel--the books listed below reflect three years of my life, potentially stolen by Meta to train their generative AI.

If you've seen these blue posts appearing on author accounts over the weekend, it's because we're all just learning our intellectual property was pirated illegally by LibGen and the collection of books was then used in part or full by Meta to train generative AI. Authors were not consulted or paid by the tech company, currently valued at $1.5 trillion.

The Atlantic is reporting on the story and found Meta employees initially looked at licensing books but found the option too expensive and would take too long. They then allegedly reasoned that licensing any books could hurt their claim of "fair use".

I've filed the standard cease and desist letter recommended by The Author's Guild and there is a class action law suit against Meta.

Night libraries! ❤️📚

An excerpt from "The Liars Club"

"Frontiers" is now exclusively at Amazon Kindle Unlimited: https://a.co/d/fpG3f1N

Frontiers: A Short Story Ricky, a teenage boy known to his buddies as “Skimo”, discovers the body of a dead woman. As the weight of the discovery and his home life collide, he wants nothing more than to leave an isolated town. Though circumstance holds taught reins on his aspirations, Ricky develops a rewarding friendsh...

An excerpt from "The Liars Club" short story.

Excerpt from THE LIARS CLUB, part of a short story compilation.