Australian authors and illustrators impacted by the LibGen database.
On 21 March 2025 The Atlantic published a search tool which allows authors to search for their books in LibGen, one of the datasets that has been used to train Meta's generative AI system. It is another confirmation of what we have long suspected: books from pirate sites have been used to train AI.

There are important caveats: "Knowing exactly which parts of LibGen that Meta and OpenAI used to train their models, and which parts they might have decided to exclude, is impossible. Also, the database is constantly growing. My snapshot of LibGen was taken in January 2025, more than a year after it was accessed by Meta," says author of The Atlantic article, Alex Reisner.

Please complete the form below to let us know whether you have been affected, and which titles of yours have been included in the dataset. We will use this information to advocate to Government on authors' and illustrators' behalf for AI regulation and greater protections for creators' copyright.

We also advise you to report the inclusion of your works on the LibGen database to your publisher.
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Please list the names of all your titles included in the LibGen dataset: *
How many copies of your books have been included in the dataset in total? 

(e.g. if you have 5 different titles in the dataset as well as a Spanish language edition of one of the titles, the total number is 6.)
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