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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

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Ng

LeCun

Mitchell

Li

Bengio

Musk

Altman

Hinton

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Hinton

Hassabis

Altman

Amodei

Musk

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