The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
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- Meta and OpenAI Accused of Using LibGen’s Pirated Books to Train AI Models
event | 8 Apr 2025 | 82%
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.