Court smacks down Meta in one of the original lawsuits brought for copyright infringement re training its artificial intelligence models. The court unredacted documents showing Meta used Library Genesis (LibGen), a shadow library of pirated books that originated in Russia, to help train its generative AI language models.

The Judge also issued this warning: “If Meta again submits an unreasonably broad sealing request, all materials will simply be unsealed”.

Boom!

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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

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British Museum settles case with translator after using work 'without permission, credit or payment'

The London institution will now reinstate Yilin Wang's translations and is reviewing its permissions policy

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