Google Trains AI on Eleven Thousand Novels Without Author Consent

Data practices raise copyright concerns; authors' work fuels AI development without compensation.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Tue, Sep 15 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 62/100 (Tailwinds building).

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