Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI
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- Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI
event | 25 July 2025 | 82%
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…