Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers.

Meta Platforms trained its AI models using pirated versions of copyrighted books, with the approval of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to newly disclosed court papers, a group of authors is alleging that the social media giant knew they were using pirated work to train their AI systems.

A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, have accused Facebook parent Meta Platforms of using pirated books to train its artific

Meta Platforms is accused by a group of authors of using pirated copyrighted books with CEO Mark Zuckerberg's approval to train its AI systems. The lawsuit, filed in California federal court, highlights the tech giant's alleged use of the LibGen dataset,

The authors sued Meta in 2023, arguing that the social media giant misused their books to train its large language model Llama.

Free Loaders Newly unredacted court documents allege that Meta, formerly Facebook, knowingly used pirated books obtained from the online archive Library Genesis to train its AI models, Wired reports.

Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.