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Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’


Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes “high quality,” “feminist,” and “ethical” adult videos, is suing Meta in a federal court in California for allegedly infringing its copyright-protected content and using it to train AI models. The Exhibits list includes titles Meta allegedly took from a variety of non-pornographic sources, such as episodes of Yellowstone, Modern Family, The Bachelor, South Park, and Downton Abbey, among other mainstream television shows. According to Meta researchers, its V-JEPA 2 “world model,” released in June, was trained on one million hours of “internet video”—a term Strike 3’s complaint points out is left unspecified.

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