Meta CEO Accused of Permitting Training of AI Models on Copyright Material Without Consent

The number of copyright lawsuits against tech giant Meta is growing. A new legal case has sprung up that happens to be one of many speaking about Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg permitting the team to use copyright content for training its AI Llama models.

The case in question Kadrey Vs Meta really opened many people’s eyes to Zuckerberg’s actions without fearing the repercussions that this could have. On most occasions, Meta keeps speaking about how it’s shielded from enjoining in pirated activities despite the American doctrine speaking otherwise.

It states how companies only have the right to use copyrighted material to produce new products that are accurately transformed. Plenty of creators reject this argument and feel the tech giant is using its mighty power to rid people of their copyrights and hard work without consent and compensation.

The new files that were sent to the District Court in Northern California add how the plaintiffs entail some big names from the world of journalism. They recounted the exact moment when Meta’s CEO showed up to approve a dataset for AI training of LLama.

This provided the company access to copyright material from various publishers such as Cengage Learning and Pearson Education, amongst so many more. Moreover, LibGen was sued on several different occasions and even forced to undergo a shutdown. Let’s not forget the growing number of fines worth tens of millions for matters like infringing copyright laws.

As per the testimony, Zuckerberg cleared the company of using content online that was protected by copyrights for Llama models. He gave the green signal even though several top AI executives felt that this was not the right way to go about training AI models.

This eyebrow-raising filing quoted how Meta’s workers were well aware of their actions entailing pirating material. They even flagged that using it could undermine its negotiating power with different regulators.

The case also brings into light a memo sent to top decision makers at Meta where the matter got escalated to Zuckerberg and how it was approved to use LibGen. So all details in this filing line up to the case published by the New York Times that says Meta did everything and anything in its power to produce book summaries and consider purchasing Simon & Schuster. In this case, executives felt it might take a long time to come to a deal for licensing. They even tried to find solid reasons in defense of the illegal actions.

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