Book authors and publishing professionals staged a protest outside Meta UK offices in King's Cross over the Facebook owner's use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.

The ruling allows companies to train AI models using purchased books under fair use laws.

Anthropic bought, cut, and scanned millions of used books for its "research library." The company also downloaded over 7 million pirated books, the judge found.

The HarperCollins publishing company made a deal with an unnamed company, and now it wants authors to license their books to train AI.

AI companies secure legal victories as judges rule training with books falls under fair use, though Anthropic faces penalties for storage.

The Authors Guild is suing OpenAI, accusing it of illegally using copyrighted books to train AI models. Newly unsealed documents show OpenAI deleted two datasets that had been used to train GPT-3.

Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed ...

Writers and authors are in an uproar over Meta using LibGen, one of the largest online pirated libraries, to train its AI.