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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

Five major book publishers and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company committed “one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history” by using pirated content from sites like LibGen to train its Llama AI models, which can output verbatim excerpts.

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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
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  • Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and Scott Turow sue Meta for copyright infringement. They claim Meta used pirate sites like LibGen to train Llama. The model can output verbatim text from copyrighted works.
  • Meta argues that training AI on copyrighted material can be fair use and will fight the lawsuit. Previous lawsuits have had mixed outcomes.

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