Summary

Court records in an ongoing lawsuit reveal that Meta staff allegedly downloaded 81.7TB of pirated books from shadow libraries like Z-Library and LibGen to train its AI models.

Internal messages show employees raising ethical concerns, with one saying, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Meta reportedly took steps to hide the activity.

The case is part of a broader debate on AI data sourcing, with similar lawsuits against OpenAI and Nvidia.

other discussions
 
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/AravRAndG on 2025-02-10 19:33:28+00:00.

 
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken on 2025-02-10 16:10:59+00:00.