Publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over AI training
Five publishers and novelist Scott Turow filed a class-action copyright lawsuit on May 5, 2026, accusing Meta Platforms and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of copying millions of copyrighted books and articles to train the Llama family of AI models. The complaint says Zuckerberg personally authorized and actively encouraged the mass ingestion of copyrighted works without permission and asks the court for damages and an injunction to stop Meta's training practices. The suit seeks class certification on behalf of authors and publishers whose works were allegedly used without licenses. A ruling for the plaintiffs could force AI companies to obtain licenses for training data and fundamentally change how large language models are built.
Five publishers and an author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative AI platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.
LaFarad5Win or loose, it won't matter to Meta. If they loose, it's a fine they can comfortably pay and carry on. They have the data, they can't untrain the model. If judges said they had to delete all of their AI code because it was trained on copyrighted data, then that would change things.
alan-a.bsky.social3Another tech bro that has zero ethics if making money is at stake. Delete your Facebook and Instagram apps.
Evil. Pure and simple. Our tech overlords will break our brains for a couple dollars.
