Meta Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Use of Pirated Books to Train AI Model

Meta Platforms Inc. is facing legal action as two prominent law firms, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, have initiated a class action lawsuit against the tech giant. The case, representing lead plaintiff Christopher Farnsworth, author of the “Nathaniel Cade” fiction series, accuses Meta of illegally obtaining “hundreds of thousands” of copyrighted books from a pirated online source to train its artificial intelligence model, known as “Llama.” This legal challenge underscores mounting scrutiny over the methodologies used by major companies in developing AI technologies. For further details, refer to the reporting by The Recorder.