US EditionMeta says 2,400 ‘adult movies’ it torrented were for personal use, not training AI
Meta denies claims by Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media that it downloaded 2,400 pirated adult films for AI training, arguing downloads were sporadic and for personal use.
- This past week, Meta filed a motion to dismiss a complaint by Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media alleging it downloaded at least 2,396 films to train AI models in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California.
- After BitTorrent activity was revealed, plaintiffs searched archived logs and identified forty-seven IP addresses linked to Meta using TorrentFreak reports and their archive of collected BitTorrent data.
- Meta counters that IP-address evidence lacks context, arguing Ninth Circuit precedent shows an IP alone cannot prove direct infringement; it highlights roughly 22 per year downloads and sporadic activity since 2018 as personal use evidence.
- Plaintiffs can oppose the motion within two weeks, after which Meta may file a follow-up response; the court will decide if the case proceeds, amid personal embarrassment for the Meta contractor's father linked to 97 downloads.
- Seen against prior findings about pirated books, the dispute carries wider implications as Meta claims it does not train AI on porn and takes steps to avoid this content.
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Meta denies using pirated porn to train AI, says downloads were for ‘personal use’
Meta rejected allegations from Strike 3 Holdings that it used pirated adult films for AI training. The company criticized the lawsuit as baseless, pointed to its prohibition against adult content generation, and noted the challenges of monitoring network activity.
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