Publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine Sues Meta over AI Training
Publisher of Entrepreneur Magazine Sues Meta over AI Training
In the lawsuit, 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.
Meta Platforms was sued by the owner of business magazine Entrepreneur in a California federal court for allegedly misusing the magazine’s work to train the tech company's artificial intelligence systems.
In the lawsuit, Entrepreneur Media said 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.
Meta spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Entrepreneur CEO Ryan Shea reportedly stated: "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."
"Stealing is not innovation, and taking decades of copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence is still stealing," Shea reportedly stated.
This is the latest in a wave of cases brought by copyright holders including authors, music labels and news outlets against Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies for using their work without permission to train AI systems.
AI companies, including Meta, have argued that they make "fair use" of the material under US copyright law by transforming it into something new.
Entrepreneur based out of Santa Ana, California said in the lawsuitthat it has been publishing books and magazines on business topics for over 50 years. Entrepreneur’s complaint said that Meta pirated "at least hundreds" of its works to train its chatbots to generate material that competes with the publisher for reader attention. An unspecified number of monetary damages and a court order blocking Meta’s alleged copyright infringement has been requested by Entrepreneur
