Meta ordered to name executives behind torrenting of books for AI training
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A federal magistrate judge wants Meta to identify who approved downloading pirated books from Anna's Archive and LibGen Meta has spent weeks pointing at rank-and-file staff over the torrenting of pirated books used to train its AI models. A federal judge now wants the names of the people above them. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson has ordered Meta Platforms to identify everyone involved in deciding to use BitTorrent to pull datasets from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and Library Genesis, better known as LibGen.
Source: Crypto Briefing
