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Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

Separately, Meta allegedly stripped copyright markers from science journal articles and “source metadata” in the training data it used for Llama. According to the filing, Meta’s head of generative AI, Ahmad Ah-Dahle, “cleared the path” for torrenting LibGen — brushing aside Bashlykov’s reservations that doing so “could be legally not OK.” “Meta’s decision to bypass lawful methods of acquiring books and become a knowing participant in an illegal torrenting network … serves as proof of copyright infringement.”

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