Meta Used Pirated Data To Evaluate Licensing, Authors Say

By Ivan Moreno ( April 15, 2025, 8:32 PM EDT) -- A group of bestselling authors accusing Meta Platforms of copyright infringement allege the tech company downloaded databases with millions of pirated books not just to train its large language models, called Llama, but also to see whether it could develop them without licensing content, according to a newly unredacted summary judgment motion....

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