A lawsuit has been filed against Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, accusing it of utilizing the work of well-known authors to train its latest artificial intelligence tool, LLaMA.
Authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden allege that the model’s training included “copying massive amounts of text from various sources and feeding these copies into the model.”
Lawsuit Alleges Meta’s LLaMA Financially Benefitted from Authors’ Work
In a recent court filing, the three prominent authors provided several reasons for alleging that Meta’s large language tool, LLaMA, copied their books.
“Plaintiffs allege “on information and belief” that Meta has “benefited financially” from this noncommercial release of LLaMA.”
The authors assert that Meta extracted information from their books for LLaMA’s training without obtaining their consent beforehand.
Furthermore, they assert that due to this, Meta bears responsibility for enabling others to utilize LLaMA for their own creations. They claim that their materials will influence all future work.
Meta argues that copyright law doesn’t cover facts or the structure of information in books.
It also points out that the content referred to constitutes a very small fraction of the entire training dataset. “Even accepting Plaintiffs’ allegations, their books comprised less th
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