Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim
by Dan Milmo and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#6TFHB)
Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings
Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of pirated" versions of copyright-protected books to train the company's artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.
Citing internal Meta communications, the filing claims that the social network company's chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company's AI executive team that it is a dataset we know to be pirated".
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