Meta is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit, with the plaintiff's attorney claiming that CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of a dataset containing pirated e-books and articles to train its Llama AI model. This case is one of many copyright lawsuits against several tech giants accused of using copyrighted works for AI model training without authorization. In documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday evening, the plaintiffs reiterated Meta's actions from the end of last year.
Recently, five major Canadian media organizations have jointly filed a lawsuit against the AI company OpenAI, accusing it of using their copyrighted content without authorization to train ChatGPT. These media organizations include Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada. According to the lawsuit, OpenAI used their content in the development of its GPT model.