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Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw-Hill filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, accusing Meta Platforms of using their books and magazine articles to train its AI model, Llama.
Publisher and author Scott Turow allege in a proposed class action lawsuit that Meta has pirated millions of works and used them without permission to train large-scale language models to respond to human prompts.
A Meta spokesperson did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the complaint on Tuesday.
“Meta’s massive piracy is not public progress, and AI will never be properly realized if tech companies prioritize pirate sites over scholarship and imagination,” Maria Pallante, president of the American Publishers Association, said in a statement.
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Publishers allege that Mehta pirates works ranging from textbooks to scientific papers and novels. fifth season With NK Jemisin wild robot AI Training by Peter Brown.
They asked the court for permission to represent more copyright owners and for unspecified monetary damages. The lawsuit opens a new chapter in an ongoing copyright battle between creators and technology companies over AI training, in which dozens of authors, news organizations, visual artists, and other plaintiffs are suing companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic for copyright infringement.
Any pending litigation will likely revolve around whether AI systems are making fair use of copyrighted material by using it to create new and innovative content.
The first two judges to consider the issue issued a divided ruling last year.
Amazon and Google-backed Anthropic was the first major AI company to settle one of its lawsuits, agreeing last year to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors to resolve a class-action lawsuit that could cost the company billions more in damages for alleged copyright infringement.
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