Meta Accused of Torrenting 81.7TB of Pirated Books to Train AI Models
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As part of the Kadrey lawsuit against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's company is being accused of using copyrighted books to train its intelligence models...
Meta used pirated books to train its AI models, and there are emails to prove it
The lawsuit filed by Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and other writers and rights holders against Meta may be entering its most critical phase. The authors have obtained internal company emails in which Meta employees openly discussed "torrenting" well-known archives of pirated content to train more powerful AI models.Read Entire Article
The emails made public by the prosecution show that he used Torrent files to download 81.7 TB with millions of books from pirate websites.
He had to teach his generative artificial intelligence something.
Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say
Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers.
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