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Production AI Institute public record · AI Incident Database: Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI · observed 2025-07-25
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AI Incident Database: Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI

Meta and Bloomberg allegedly used Books3, a dataset containing 191,000 pirated books, to train their AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, without author consent. Lawsuits from authors such as Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon claim this constitutes copyright infringement. Books3 includes works from major publishers like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. Meta argues its AI outputs are not "substantially similar" to the original books, but legal challenges conti…

AI Incident Database · Incident 996

Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D3 (data handling), D6 (autonomy oversight).

Confidence
82%
Sources
3
Entities
24
Detected
detected 357d ago

Event summary

Meta and Bloomberg allegedly used Books3, a dataset containing 191,000 pirated books, to train their AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, without author consent. Lawsuits from authors such as Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon claim this constitutes copyright infringement. Books3 includes works from major publishers like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. Meta argues its AI outputs are not "substantially similar" to the original books, but legal challenges conti…

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  • shawn-presser

    organisation | 70%

  • Meta

    vendor | 70%

  • eleutherai

    organisation | 70%

  • bloomberg

    organisation | 70%

  • generative-ai-developers

    organisation | 70%

  • zadie-smith

    organisation | 70%

  • writers

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  • verso

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  • stephen-king

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  • sarah-silverman

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  • richard-kadrey

    organisation | 70%

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  • penguin-random-house

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  • oxford-university-press

    organisation | 70%

  • over-170000-authors-found-in-books3

    organisation | 70%

  • michael-pollan

    organisation | 70%

  • margaret-atwood

    organisation | 70%

  • macmillan

    organisation | 70%

  • harpercollins

    organisation | 70%

  • general-public

    organisation | 70%

  • creative-industries

    organisation | 70%

  • christopher-golden

    organisation | 70%

  • authors

    organisation | 70%

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Event dates

  • Happened 25 Oct 2020

  • Detected 25 July 2025

Sources

  • AI Incident Database - Incident 996

    secondary | checked 9 July 2026

    Open source
  • Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI

    secondary | checked 20 Mar 2025

    Open source
  • Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

    secondary | checked 24 July 2023

    Open source
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"AI Incident Database: Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI." https://www.productionai.institute/graph/events/evt-aiid-996 (observed 2020-10-25; retrieved 2026-07-17). PAI.

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