Today, I am blogging just for authors, because I found out something both incredible and infuriating and I feel compelled to share. For those of you who didn’t know either: There is a database of authored works called LibGen and it is used by META to train AI. I searched with my name today, and, to my horror, found one of my books is pirated on there. You can search for your author name here and I hope you find none:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If you have found your books on there don’t worry. There are ways to take action, and you are not alone.

The Authors Guild provides a ready template for authors to send an email to META and complain. I have done that, and now I am spreading the word. If you find your books on META’s pirated books database you can go here to use the Authors Guild’s letter template. It takes seconds to put in your details and send the email from the same page:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/authors-guild-author-letters-to-ai-companies?source=email&

See also this post if you wish to take more action:

https://societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/the-libgen-data-set-what-authors-can-do/

Please spread the word so that more authors find out about this! The more of us put pressure on META the better! To save you time, feel free to copy this post and use it as is or edit it as you wish. You don’t need to credit me by name. I give you full permission.

Please consider putting this infomation all over your social media and in your newsletter too. Authors often subscribe to multiple newsletters so you’ll give them a good chance to see this and protect their works.

They will be greatful to you for sharing. I know I am grateful to my author friends Theresa Snyder and Jenny Burke who posted about this on Facebook!

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