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In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense | TechCrunch

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Mark Zuckerberg appears to be defending Meta ’s use of a data set containing copyrighted e-books to train AI models.

Zuckerberg said YouTube is trying to take down pirated content but YouTube has the license to do it.

The deposition is part of a complaint submitted to the court by plaintiffs’ attorneys in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta .

And Meta downloaded pirated e-books from another source, Z-Library , for Llama training as recently as April 2024 , the amended complaint alleges. Z-Library, or Z-Lib, has been the subject of a number of legal actions brought by publishers, including domain seizures and takedowns. In 2022 , the Russian nationals who allegedly maintained it were charged with copyright infringement, wire fraud, and money laundering..