Summary
Court records in an ongoing lawsuit reveal that Meta staff allegedly downloaded 81.7TB of pirated books from shadow libraries like Z-Library and LibGen to train its AI models.
Internal messages show employees raising ethical concerns, with one saying, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Meta reportedly took steps to hide the activity.
The case is part of a broader debate on AI data sourcing, with similar lawsuits against OpenAI and Nvidia.
I said this in another thread on this subject- this is a very clear violation of the Berne Convention and Meta could find itself in court all over the world because of this.
https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/
Probably not, but I can hope.