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  • Class Action Accuses Meta of Pirating Books to Train AI Alan Gardner
    Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
     

Class Action Accuses Meta of Pirating Books to Train AI

6 May 2026 at 21:13
Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]

Major Lawsuit Claims Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized’ Use of Copyrighted Works for AI

6 May 2026 at 15:09

A smartphone displays the Meta logo in the foreground, with a blurred person standing against a blue background in the distance.

Five publishing houses and a best-selling novelist have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama, and Mark Zuckerberg "personally authorized" the company's copyright infringement.

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Images, Not Chatbots, Drive Downloads for AI Apps

6 May 2026 at 10:14

Close-up of a smartphone screen displaying app icons for DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and an AI-related app. The icons are clear with distinct logos and names visible.

The still image is incredibly powerful; photographers know this better than anyone. And even in AI, it is the picture side of the product that is turbo-charging their gigantic businesses, according to a new report.

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