Harald Walker<p>This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”</p><p>As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless.</p><p><a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vanityfair.com/news/story/meta</span><span class="invisible">-ai-lawsuit</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meta</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/metalawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metalawsuit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/intellectualproperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualproperty</span></a></p>