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Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training | TechCrunch

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Documents unsealed by plaintiffs in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta .

Defendants say training AI models on IP -protected works, particularly books, is fair use.

Documents show internal work chats between Meta staffers discussing using copyrighted works to train AI models.

In one chat, a Meta research engineer said “a gazillion” startups were probably already using pirated books for training.

In a work chat, Kambadur mentioned that Meta ’s AI team tuned models to “avoid IP risky prompts” The filings contain other revelations, implying that Meta may have scraped Reddit data for some type of model training.

The plaintiffs in Kadrey v. Meta have amended their complaint several times since the case was filed in the U.S. District Court in 2023 .