Authors allege Meta knowingly used pirated books
In the US, a group of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman is suing Meta for copyright infringement, alleging CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of pirated books to train Meta’s AI systems, reports Reuters.
A judge previously dismissed part of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by authors including Silverman against Meta, regarding its large language model Llama. Silverman, Coates and others have filed an updated complaint, claiming internal Meta communications showed Zuckerberg ‘approved Meta’s use of the LibGen [AI training] dataset notwithstanding concerns within Meta’s AI executive team (and others at Meta) that LibGen is “a dataset we know to be pirated”’.
Meanwhile, in AI news in the UK, a new alliance of organisations – the Creative Rights in AI (Artificial Intelligence) Coalition, which launched in late 2024 – has urged the government to protect copyright. The Bookseller reports: ‘The coalition’s three principles for AI policy focus on a dynamic licensing market with robust protections for copyright, control and transparency for content creators, and driving growth and innovation in the creative and tech sectors.’
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