Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team approval to train on copyrighted documents, according to a new court filing.

A recent court filing in an ongoing lawsuit against Meta alleges Mark Zuckerberg approved the AI dataset despite internal warnings.

A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, alleged in a court filing that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved "Meta's torrenting and processing of pirated copyrighted works" to train the company's AI models.

Meta Platforms trained its AI models using pirated versions of copyrighted books, with the approval of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to newly disclosed court papers, a group of authors is alleging that the social media giant knew they were using pirated work to train their AI systems.

Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.

Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the tech giant’s use of a pirated book dataset to train its AI model LLaMA, a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement alleged in unredacted court filings.

Free Loaders Newly unredacted court documents allege that Meta, formerly Facebook, knowingly used pirated books obtained from the online archive Library Genesis to train its AI models, Wired reports.

A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman, have accused Meta Platforms of using pirated books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.