From The Washington Post:
"Five leading publishers and a best-selling author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday, [May 5,] alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative artificial intelligence platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.
"Author Scott Turow and the publishers named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — allege that Meta and Zuckerberg 'illegally torrented millions of copyrighted books and journal articles' and 'downloaded unauthorized web scrapes of virtually the entire internet.' Meta then copied the stolen material many times over, the plaintiffs allege, to train the AI system — effectively engaging 'in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted material in history. ..."