Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.

The publishers, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class action complaint that ‌Meta pirated ⁠millions of ⁠their works and used them without permission to train its large language models to ​respond to human prompts.