Five of the country’s largest book and journal publishers have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models. The lawsuit is the first copyright infringement litigation brought against an AI firm by publishers. To date, most of the lawsuits have been brought by authors and other creatives, such as the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.
Source: Publishers File Lawsuit Against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg