Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.
Citing internal Meta communications, the filing claims that the social network company’s chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company’s AI executive team that it is a dataset “we know to be pirated”.
The internal message says that using a database containing pirated material could weaken the Facebook and Instagram owner’s negotiations with regulators, according to the filing. “Media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, may undermine our negotiating position with regulators.”
The US author Ta-Nehisi Coates, the comedian Sarah Silverman and the other authors suing Meta for copyright infringement made the accusations in a filing made public on Wednesday, in a California federal court.
Source: Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim | Mark Zuckerberg | The Guardian

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