Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say

Ars Technica
By Ashley BelangerFeb 6, 2025, 4:26 pm281 pts
Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books. Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of…

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