Meta was accused of illegally training AI using pirated content, with leaked emails confirming its involvement in torrenting.

"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 ...

While Meta has denied any wrongdoing, newly unsealed messages suggest that executives ... terabytes of pirated data – was clearly "not OK" from a legal standpoint. Meta was apparently aware ...

consulting the legal team and highlighting in an email that “using torrents would entail ‘seeding’ the files—i.e., sharing the content outside, this could be legally not OK.” Meta ...