Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant's defense is pretty thin. In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a ...

Billions of dollars are at stake as courts in the US and UK decide whether tech companies can legally train their artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books. Authors and publishers have filed ...

Meta was hit with a class action in California federal court accusing it of stealing hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train Llama, its AI large language model set. Meta allegedly ...

Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models. Against the ...

As part of their livelihood, there are many leadership strategists, consultants, thinkers, and practitioners who write books. Any of these authors also have a complicated relationship with LibGen. For ...

Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is it okay to use pirated books to train AI?” The machine’s response was unequivocal. “Using pirated books to train AI is not okay,” it admonished. “In ...