TECH CROOKERY: Meta Rips Off The Author And Passes The Savings On To Skynet. “It turns out that Meta, AKA Facebook, used a giant database of pirated books known as ‘book3’ for their AI generative training efforts. Indeed, you can now search an index to see who was ripped off. . . . The fact that Meta is not only training AI on author’s works without their permission, but using pirated copies to do so adds insult to injury.”