Meta’s AI Faces Copyright Crunch

In a plot twist for AI aficionados, Meta is under fire in 2025 for training its Llama models with pirated books from LibGen, reportedly greenlit by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Authors like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman are suing, accusing Meta of copyright infringement and sneaky data harvesting. Judge Chhabria slammed Meta’s document redactions as “preposterous,” potentially reshaping tech’s approach to data ethics. Will this case tame the wild west of AI training datasets?