US EditionSenate Panel Hears Allegations Meta, Others Stole IP for AI Training
UNITED STATES SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE CRIME & TERRORISM SUBCOMMITTEE, JUL 17 – Senator Josh Hawley accused Meta of willfully pirating over 200 terabytes of copyrighted works to train AI models without compensating authors, calling it criminal conduct.
- During a Senate subcommittee hearing, Hawley stated `Meta willfully pirated “droves of copyrighted content”` to train AI models.
- During the hearing, Pritt described reliance on online repositories of stolen copyrighted works, noting tens of millions of books and scholarly publications taken for free instead of buying or licensing, citing Pritt's testimony.
- Meanwhile, internal records show Meta employees warned they were engaging in illegal copying, with the company taking action to conceal its piracy via non-Meta servers.
- Bestselling author David Baldacci testified, warning that mass piracy 'taken most of my novels without permission' harms authors, songwriters, and creative producers.
- Just weeks after judges allowed AI companies to use books without permission, Sen. Hawley underscores the need for legislative reform, urging Congress to change the law.
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Senator slams Big Tech's role in 'pirating' copyrighted books for AI training purposes
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., called out artificial intelligence companies like Meta for their alleged role in taking more than 200 terabytes of published works from authors without paying them a dime to make AI smarter.The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing Wednesday to examine the AI industry’s ingestion of copyrighted works for AI training.The hearing was held just weeks after two federal judges in San Franc…
Senate panel hears allegations Meta, others stole IP for AI training
'If this isn't infringement, Congress needs to do something.'
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) described generative AI (GenAI) vendors' model training on copyrighted material as "the largest intellectual property theft in American history," during a hearing held Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism. Hawley said AI companies have stolen "massive amounts of copyrighted material from illegal online repositories." "If this isn't infringement, Congress needs to do something," Hawley s…
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