World’s biggest publishers allege Meta’s AI stole millions of books in ‘massive’ copyright infringement class action
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Major publishers sued Meta for allegedly training its AI on millions of pirated books without permission.Summary
Some of the world's largest publishers, including McGraw-Hill and Hachette Book Group, filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta in Manhattan federal court. They allege that Meta illegally trained its AI model, Llama, on millions of copyrighted novels, textbooks, and academic articles scraped from pirating sites. The publishers claim Meta knew this conduct would infringe copyright and actively tried to cover it up. They argue that Meta's AI's success relies on
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