Publishers Accuse Meta of Misusing Their Works in AI Training

Publishers are accusing Meta of misusing their works to train its Llama artificial intelligence model. In a federal class action lawsuit filed Tuesday (May 5), publishing houses Elsevier , Cengage Learning , Hachette , Macmillan , and McGraw Hill accused Meta and founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of violating copyright laws through “willful infringement” of millions of books and journal articles. “Meta chose to live by its motto of ‘move fast, and break things,’ and now must be held accountable fo