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Meta Pirated Faith Writers To Train AI. Here’s How They Feel About It

By Mitchell Atencio
Meta, the company that owns Facebook, pirated millions of books to build the dataset that would train its AI model. Graphic by Ryan McQuade/Sojourners
Apr 8, 2025
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Meta's new "Llama 3" AI model was trained on the stolen text of poetry, sociology, fiction, theology, and more from countless writers, including a few who have written for Sojourners. Now, those writers are speaking out. 

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Meta, the company that owns Facebook, pirated millions of books to build the dataset that would train its AI model. Graphic by Ryan McQuade/Sojourners