The White House has accused China of industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property and warned that it would crack down on a practice that exploits US innovation. Ft Pot calls kettle black.
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Publishers sue Meta and Zuckerberg Hachette and peers claim copyrighted works were used to train AI illegally HANNAH MURPHY — SAN FRANCISCO Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg face a lawsuit from a coalition of major publishers, alleging the social media platform illegally used copyrighted works to train its Llama AI models. Five publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — along with bestselling author Scott Turow, are suing the Big Tech company and its founder over “one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history”. According to the filing to the Manhattan federal court yesterday, Meta accessed millions of copyrighted books and journal articles from websites hosting pirated material, and also downloaded unauthorised scrapes of “virtually the entire internet” to train
