Facebook Pirates Your Books To Train Its AI

Fair use is fairly restrictive, particularly it is an education exemption without which teaching especially art and contemporary literature would be more difficult.
The use here appears to be commercial and I would say not protected.
However a far more nuanced and serious consideration is the potential to immitate an authors or artist's "style". "Write a story in the style of J.G. Ballard" does not copy his text but does take from him and does dilute the stylistic uniqueness of his work, which is a market impact.
 
I think there's no way of looking at it that isn't commercial. One way or another, it's using a writer's work to train an AI for your commercial benefit, or it's training an AI to impersonate that writer (without consent), which will enable the AI to produce imitations of that writer's work, which will reduce the writer's profit. And the idea that this is somehow for the general benefit of mankind is so laughable that it wouldn't stand a chance.
 
Definitely room for someone with enough time on their hands to create software to feed the web crawlers with gibberish -just coherent enough for the AI to read as a novel, but nonsense. Let them train themselves into meaningless oblivion;) Though that's what will probably happen eventually anyway.
 
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