Meta and OpenAI Accused of Using LibGen’s Pirated Books to Train AI Models
February 28, 2023
Court records reveal that Meta employees allegedly discussed pirating books to train LLaMA 3, citing cost and speed concerns with licensing. Internal messages suggest Meta accessed LibGen, a repository of over 7.5 million pirated books, with apparent approval from Mark Zuckerberg. Employees allegedly took steps to obscure the dataset’s origins. OpenAI has also been implicated in using LibGen.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, meta
- Alleged developer
- openai, meta
- Alleged harmed parties
- writers, publishers, journalists, authors, academic-researchers
Source
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