Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company “engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history” when training its Llama AI.
Look — if it’s actually “word-for-word, ” that’s not some fuzzy fair-use debate, that’s just copying with extra steps. And training off piracy sites is a wild thing to try to hand-wave away in court.
Yeah “word-for-word” isn’t transformative, it’s just a photocopier with a GPU attached. and the piracy-site angle makes it feel less like an oops and more like “we knew exactly what we were doing. ”
