27 Mar 2025

New Zealand authors books hoovered up by illegal pirate site

From Checkpoint, 4:24 pm on 27 March 2025

It's been revealed the illegal pirate site Lib Gen has hoovered up thousands of books written by New Zealand authors. Some of that work is now being copied by Meta and other AI companies allegedly in breach of copyright and with no composition for the authors. It's believed their writing is being used to teach AI how to mimic similar genres. Jenny Nagle, the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Society of Authors spoke to Lisa Owen.