If You Use ChatGPT, You’re a Lazy Thief

My book was one of the 191,000 used to train generative AI and I’m not flattered. I’m livid.

I will be brief because this is for the writers who’ve put in the hard work to only have it stolen by tech companies building programs to make lazy people even lazier.

I said what I said.

Over the summer, my second book, Follow Me Into the Dark, was one of the 191,000 pirated books used by companies like Meta, Bloomberg, etc., to train AI systems so inept people can get a taste of what it’s like to actually be a writer. It took me years to write and edit that book with my publisher, and now it’s been scraped and stolen by tech companies who spread garbage in the world like a sickness.

My book is included in the Book3 dataset to train generative AI programs

This is copyright infringement and I’m glad the Authors Guild and fancier authors are kicking up a fuss about this.

If you’re using generative AI, you know you’re taking the easy way out. You’re stealing from an industry that notoriously underpays its writers. You’re not doing the work we did. All you want is clicks and money.

You’re not an artist or a writer — you’re a fraud.

For years, people on this platform have stolen my work and claimed it as their own. They’ve lifted lines or brazenly…