Meta sued by publishers for using copyrighted works to train AI, WSJ reports

A group of publishers, including Cengage Learning, Hachette, Macmillan Publishers, and McGraw Hill, filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta alleging it illegally used pirated copyrighted materials to train its Llama AI models and removed copyright information to conceal the sources, The Wall Street Journal’s Katherine Hamilton reports. The lawsuit names Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who the publishers claimed personally authorized and actively encouraged the copyright infringement.