The adult content download in the corporate network Meta has taken the technology company to court, although it claims that it has nothing to do with the training of its artificial intelligence, but rather that it would be “private personal use.”
The producer Strike 3 Holdings, dedicated to pornographic content, and Counterlife Media have sued Meta in federal court in California for copyright infringement after detecting the downloading of adult films at the Menlo Park firm.
The two companies tracked IP addresses that could belong to Meta after learning that the tech giant had used unofficial sources to access pirated content, such as BitTorrent with the aim of using them in the training of their Llama models.
In their search they identified 47 IP addresses that belonged to Meta, and the download of nearly 2,400 adult movies since 2018as reported in TorrentFreak. This led them to file a lawsuit and request payment of 359 million dollars as compensation.
Meta, however, has filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the IP address is not enough to link the company to the download of protected content, since the activity is not centralized, and the records that Strike 3 has identified date back to 2018, four years before he started training his video models.
The technology company points out, however, that the number of downloads “is clearly indicative of private personal use not a concerted effort to collect the massive data sets that plaintiffs allege are necessary for effective AI training.”