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French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI models on their books without consent, say they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches. (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anna Archive should make a deal w DOJ, provide evidence about Meta, free the two zlib admin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The goverment will kill Anna's archive the moment laws stemming from this lawsuits are passed. It guarantees any new open source initiatives don't surface once they are all shut down. The big players will be okay though since they can stomach the fines and pay for the data.