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

TechnologyMay 5, 20261 min readAttributed summary
Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history"
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Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission.

The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Source: The Verge

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