Publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over alleged AI copyright infringement

Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a lawsuit from five major publishers and author Scott Turow alleging the company illegally copied millions of copyrighted works to train its AI systems. According to the lawsuit Zuckerberg personally authorized the process. The post Author Scott Turow, 5 Publishers Sue Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for ‘Massive’ Copyright Infringement to Train AI appeared first on Breitbart.

Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg "personally authorized and actively encouraged" massive copyright infringement by using pirated books, journal articles, and web-scraped material to train Meta's Llama AI systems. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it will fight the case, arguing that courts have recognized AI training on copyrighted material as potentially fair use. Variety reports: "In their effort to win the AI 'arms race' and build a functional generative AI model, Defendants Meta and Zuckerberg followed their well-known motto: 'move fast and break things,'" the plaintiffs say in their lawsuit. "They first illegally torrented millions of copyrighted books and journal articles from notorious pirate sites and downloaded unauthorized web scrapes of virtually the entire internet. They then copied those stolen fruits many times over to train Meta's multibillion-dollar generative AI system called Llama. In doing so, Defendants engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history." The suit was filed Tuesday (May 5) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by five publishers (Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage) and Turow individually. The proposed class-action suit seeks unspecific monetary damages for the alleged copyright infringement. A copy of the lawsuit is available at this link (PDF). [...] the latest lawsuit alleges that Meta and Zuckerberg deliberately circumvented copyright-protection mechanisms -- and had considered paying to license the works before abandoning that strategy at "Zuckerberg's personal instruction." The suit essentially argues that the conduct described falls outside protections afforded by fair-use provisions of the U.S. copyright code. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage and bestselling novelist Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta relied on pirated books to train its AI program.

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage and bestselling novelist Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta relied on pirated books to train its AI program.

Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage and bestselling novelist Scott Turow have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta relied on pirated books to train its AI program.

Five major publishing houses and the bestselling author are suing Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly training its Llama generative AI models on millions of copyrighted materials.