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Discussions on WindowsForum.com about pirated books center on a lawsuit where authors allege Microsoft used unauthorized digital copies of their works to train its Megatron AI model. The case involves Pulitzer Prize winners and claims that a dataset of nearly 200,000 pirated books was employed to develop a language algorithm that mimics original writing styles. This tag covers legal and ethical issues around AI training data, copyright infringement, and the use of pirated content in technology development.
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    Authors Sue Microsoft Over AI Training Using Pirated Books

    A group of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company used pirated digital versions of their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. The lawsuit...
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