After multiple lawsuits brought by coalitions of authors against AI companies, now a coalition of book publishers has brought a suit as well. Five publishers, joined by one author, have filed a lawsuit in New York’s Southern District seeking class action status against Meta and ceo Mark Zuckerberg personally for infringing copyrights to train Meta’s LLM Llama. Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and Scott Turow claim that Meta, as directed by Zuckerberg, pirated millions of books, scholarly articles, and more, to build and then profit from its AI tool. “Defendants reproduced and distributed millions of copyrighted works […]
