INSIDE META'S RACE TO BEAT OPENAI: “WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD FRONTIER AND WIN THIS RACE

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Data scarcity has led AI developers to look for new ways to get unique data. Documents from a major copyright lawsuit against Meta show internal discussions about avoiding media coverage suggesting that the company used a dataset it knew to be pirated. It reportedly used the book piracy site LibGen to train its AI systems. The documents hint that OpenAI and Mistral may also be using the library for their models. Meta and other AI companies have previously argued that using copyrighted material in training data should constitute legal fair use.