Meta was accused of downloading and distributing porn

Meta has been loading copyright-protected "adult" content through torrent networks for years to train AI models. This is stated in a new lawsuit filed by two companies from the adult industry.

Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media accused Mark Zuckerberg's firm of "intentional and conscious" copyright infringement on at least 2396 films since 2018.

According to the document, Meta uploaded adult films "for the purpose of obtaining content to train its movie generation model Movie Gen and other neural networks that use video as training material."

The company allegedly did this without permission and with the intention of distributing videos "to speed up the loading of huge amounts of other content."

Popular torrent networks are used not only for downloading media files. They are peer-to-peer data exchange platforms where users transfer pieces of files directly to each other.

The lawsuit claims that Meta not only downloaded pornographic content but also provided it to other users, profiting from it.

Strike 3 Holdings, whose websites are visited by over 25 million people per month, is seeking compensation that could reach $359 million. The company is also pursuing a court injunction to prevent the distribution of its content.

Recall that in June, Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that the company Anthropic had the right to train models on published books without the authors' permission.