Zuckerberg faces lawsuit from five publishers for using copyrighted materials to train AI
Five publishers, including McGraw Hill and Elsevier, have filed a lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the company's software engineers used pirated books and journal articles to train its AI model, Llama. The lawsuit claims that Meta removed copyright notices from the works and used them without permission or compensation.
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a lawsuit from five publishers, including McGraw Hill, Macmillan, Elsevier, Hachette, and Cengage. The publishers allege that Meta's software engineers used pirated books and journal articles to train the company's AI model, Llama. The works were downloaded through piracy sites, and Zuckerberg personally authorized the copyright infringement. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Meta's spokesman stated that the company will fight the lawsuit aggressively, claiming that training AI on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use. The lawsuit alleges that Meta removed copyright notices from the works and displaced legitimate sales of publications by downloading and torrenting copies from unauthorized sources.
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