This Guy Stole 25,000 Books and Fed Them to his AI for Profit
And now he’s taking the website down
Prosecraft is apparently a new website designed to analyze writing and suggest improvements through an algorithm.
That sounds like some nonsense already because it’s hard to quantify writing.
What the creator of the website didn’t think about was how the authors of the more than 25,000 books he fed into his AI algorithm without their permission would feel about their work being stolen.
According to a Tweet in his defence, Prosecraft was supposed to be a “fascinating and useful” tool, which he’d created in support of the writing community.
I don’t know about you but theft and fraud doesn’t sound very supportive to me.
He’s now being bombarded with frustration and anger, rightfully so, from authors whose books were uploaded to the website without their consent.
