Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon and other prominent authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Metaalleging that He allegedly used his copyrighted content to train his innovative artificial intelligence, Llama AI.
The accusation, according to Gizmodonot only raises important questions about the ethics of using copyrighted content for technological development purposes, but also sheds light on the growing controversy surrounding the use of AI in the industry.
The lawsuit filed against Meta states that The company used the text of works written by the plaintiffs to train its artificial intelligence data set. This data set is critical to the operation of Llama AI, which launched in February and has been touted as a breakthrough in AI’s ability to understand and generate natural language.
The authors argue that much of the material in the Meta training data set comes from copyrighted worksincluding works written by themselves, without obtaining their consent, credit or compensation.
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The lawsuit also mentions that Meta included in its data set a category called “Books” that supposedly contained 85 gigabytes of information. Meta allegedly collected some of this content from Project Gutenberg, an online source for books no longer under copyright, as well as from a section called “Books3 by ThePile.”
The lawsuit claims that ThePile, despite not being described in detail by Meta, is compiled by private tracker Bibliotik and is based on material available via torrent systems, which the lawsuit says is “blatantly illegal.”
The lawsuit involves not only Michael Chabon, but also other influential authors including David Henry Hwang, Matthew Klam, Ayelet Waldman, and Rachel Louise Snyder, all of whom claim their intellectual property was used without their permission.