Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized' Meta's Copyright Infringement to Train Llama — Five Publishers File Class Action

Variety / Hacker News·high signal

Five major publishers (Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill) and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit alleging Zuckerberg personally directed the torrenting of over 267 TB of pirated material — equivalent to hundreds of millions of publications — to train Llama AI models. The suit claims Meta considered licensing the works but abandoned that strategy at 'Zuckerberg's personal instruction.' At 419 points and 367 comments on HN (with a corroborating AP News story at 151 points), this is the most aggressively personal AI copyright claim yet filed.