Posted 4/9/2024, 3:37:00 PM
Meta Weighed Buying Publisher for AI Training Texts, Documents Show
- Meta executives discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster to obtain books for training AI models
- They talked about paying $10 per book for licensing rights to new titles
- A Meta VP said they had used almost every English book, poem, essay available online to train models
- Employees acknowledged using texts without permission and talked of using more despite lawsuits
- A judge dismissed part of a lawsuit against Meta over using copyrighted books to train its AI system LLaMA