Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
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TL;DR
- Five major book publishers (Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage) and author Scott Turow are suing Meta.
- They allege Meta's Llama AI models were trained on massive amounts of copyrighted materials without permission.
- The lawsuit claims Meta copied works from 'notorious pirate sites' like LibGen and used the Common Crawl dataset, which allegedly contains unauthorized copies.
- Llama AI has allegedly produced verbatim or near-verbatim reproductions of copyrighted content.
- Meta's spokesperson stated that training AI on copyrighted material can be fair use and vowed to fight the lawsuit.
- Previous lawsuits over copyright infringement in AI training have had mixed rulings, with one case settling for $1.5 billion.