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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
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Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta AI copyright infringement, major publishers allege in new lawsuit

Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a class action lawsuit from five publishing houses and author Scott Turow, who allege the tech giant illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence system, Llama.

Filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday, the legal action accuses Meta of widespread copyright infringement, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing dispute between the literary world and AI developers.

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