The owner of business magazine Entrepreneur sued Meta Platforms in California federal court on Thursday for allegedly misusing its work to train the tech company’s artificial intelligence systems, reports Blake Brittain of Reuters.
Brittain reports, “Entrepreneur Media said in the lawsuit that Meta copied its business strategy books, professional development guides and other instructional materials to train its Llama large language models to generate competing content.
“Spokespeople for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“‘Rather than licensing or even purchasing copies of Entrepreneur’s work, Meta – one of the largest, most well-known, and wealthiest corporations in the world – chose to simply take it,’ Entrepreneur CEO Ryan Shea said in a statement. ‘Stealing is not innovation, and taking decades of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence is still stealing.'”
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