Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings
Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in acommunications, the filing claims that the social network company’s chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company’s AI executive team that it is a dataset “we know to be pirated”.
The Library Genesis, or LibGen, dataset is a “shadow library” that originated in Russia and claims to contain millions of novels, nonfiction books and science magazine articles.
Quoting internal communications, the filing also says Meta engineers discussed accessing and reviewing LibGen data but hesitated on starting that process because “torrenting”, a term for peer-to-peer sharing of files, from “a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”.
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