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Meta Platforms, under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is facing legal challenges following allegations by a group of authors that the company used pirated books to train its AI models. According to a court filing, internal communications within Meta revealed that Zuckerberg approved the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online repository of books known to contain pirated material. This decision was reportedly made despite warnings from Meta’s AI executive team about the potential legal and regulatory risks. The group of authors, which includes Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, is pursuing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta, arguing that their works were misused for training Llama, Meta’s large language model. This case highlights the ongoing legal disputes surrounding the use of copyrighted content in the development of AI technologies.