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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training
Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model
TL;DR
- Five major publishers and author Scott Turow sued Meta Platforms in federal court.
- The lawsuit alleges Meta misused copyrighted books and journal articles to train its AI models.
- Meta is accused of pirating millions of works without permission for its Llama large language models.
- The publishers seek to represent a larger class of copyright owners and unspecified monetary damages.
- Meta denies wrongdoing, arguing that training AI on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use.