Meta Headquarters along 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, CA. (Credit: Marc Olivier Le Blanc) Meta Hit With Class Action for Allegedly Using Pirated Books to Train AI Models
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard filed a class action on behalf of lead plaintiff Christopher Farnsworth, author of the "Nathaniel Cade" fiction series, against Meta on Tuesday, claiming it stole "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books from a pirated online collection to build its large language model set, "Llama."
October 02, 2024 at 08:36 PM
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Artificial Intelligence
What You Need to Know
- Meta was hit with a class action in California federal court accusing it of stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its AI large language model set, Llama.
- Meta allegedly downloaded and copied over 200,000 works from a trove of pirated books.
- Meta was previously sued on similar copyright infringement claims in 2023 by a class of authors including comedian Sarah Silverman.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is the latest target of litigation aimed at Big Tech companies that allegedly use copyright-protected books to train their artificial intelligence models without the authors' consent.
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