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Mark Zuckerberg Gave Meta's Llama Team the OK To Train On Copyright Works, Filing Claims
Plaintiffs in Kadrey v. Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg authorized the team behind the company's Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated ebooks and articles for training. They further accuse the company of concealing its actions by stripping copyright information and torrenting the dat...
LibGen has been sued a number of times, ordered to shut down, and fined tens of millions of dollars for copyright infringement. The details seemingly line up with reporting from The New York Times last April, which suggested that Meta cut corners to gather data for its AI. At one point, Meta was hiring contractors in Africa to aggregate summaries of books and considering buying the publisher Simon & Schuster, according to the Times.
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