Meta Hit With Class Action for Allegedly Using Pirated Books to Train AI Models

October 2, 2024

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard filed a class action on behalf of lead plaintiff Christopher Farnsworth, author of the “Nathaniel Cade” fiction series, against Meta on Tuesday, claiming it stole “hundreds of thousands” of copyrighted books from a pirated online collection to build its large language model set, “Llama.”