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The publishers, as well as Author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class action complaint that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to \u200btrain its large language models to respond to human prompts.<\/p>\n
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\u201cArtificial intelligence (AI) is powering \u200btransformative innovations, productivity and creativity for individuals and companies, and courts have \u2060rightly found that training AI on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use,” \u200ba Meta Spokesperson responded in a statement on Tuesday. “We will fight this lawsuit aggressively.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The \u200bpublishers allege that Meta pirated works ranging from textbooks to scientific articles to novels, including “The Fifth Season” by N.K. Jemisin and “The Wild Robot” by Peter Brown for its AI training. They asked \u200bthe court for permission to represent a larger class of copyright owners and an \u200bunspecified amount of monetary damages.<\/p>\n
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“Meta\u2019s mass-scale infringement isn\u2019t public progress, and AI will never be properly \u200crealised \u2060if tech companies prioritise pirate sites over scholarship and imagination,” Maria Pallante, President of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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The lawsuit opens a new front in the ongoing copyright battle between creators and tech companies over AI training, in which \u200bdozens of authors, news \u200boutlets, visual artists \u2060and other plaintiffs have sued companies including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic for infringement.<\/p>\n
All of the pending cases will likely revolve around \u200bwhether AI systems make fair use of copyrighted material by \u200busing it \u2060to create new, transformative content. The first two judges to consider the matter issued diverging rulings last year.<\/p>\n
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Amazon-and Google-backed Anthropic was the first major AI company to settle one \u2060of the \u200bcases, agreeing last year to pay a group of \u200bauthors $1.5 billion to resolve a class-action lawsuit that could have cost the company billions more in damages for \u200balleged piracy.<\/p>\n
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