Meta has been ordered by a judge to identify executives who authorized the piracy of copyrighted books via torrents for AI training, after the company attempted to blame lower-level staff. The discovery order relates to lawsuits from authors and publishers alleging willful copyright infringement in Meta's AI dataset collection.
Background
Meta faces multiple class-action lawsuits from authors and publishers over its use of copyrighted material scraped from shadow libraries like Anna's Archive and LibGen for AI model training. The legal pressure highlights growing scrutiny of Big Tech's data sourcing practices.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Oct 21, 2026 at 01:40 AM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10