The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram.

A new day, a new controversy around artificial intelligence. This time, Meta has been accused of using pirated content

Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.

A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, alleged in a court filing that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved "Meta's torrenting and processing of pirated copyrighted works" to train the company's AI models.

A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman, have accused Meta Platforms of using pirated books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.