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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work
(www.theguardian.com)
I'll finally be able to finish a book!
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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It's not even empty!
It lists all the authors' names in it.
Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Fingers Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug Doug
Doug Fingers Doug
…nice try!
and they're taking it out on the trees.
What did the trees do to deserve that?
Surely they're not actually printing them all?
Publishers usually get about 85 to 90% of the revenue on printed books, and 75% of the revenue on ebooks.
If using copyrighted data becomes illegal, they will get 100% of the profit from selling their data most likely.
This book should be aimed at them.
The real trick is to cheat honestly... Thats what everybody does now. Feed them garbage will the goof ball professor grade it or will it be given to AI. We need to eat the rich asap
still cool protest though
I think I might up load this as an epub to my favorite trackers