Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Image via The Guardian.
Jan. 13, 2025 — Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.
Citing internal Meta communications, the filing claims that the social network company’s chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company’s AI executive team that it is a dataset “we know to be pirated.”