Meta Caught Pirating Porn to Train AI: Lawsuit Claims Copyright Infringement

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is facing a major legal challenge over allegations of copyright infringement related to the use of pornographic content for training its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A lawsuit filed by Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media accuses Meta of secretly using torrent sites to download millions of adult films since 2018. The defendants claim this unauthorized use of copyrighted material caused significant financial loss, as they argue Meta violated their copyright in a calculated effort to train its AI for image and video classification purposes.