Five publishers sue Meta over Llama training data: Hachette, Macmillan, Elsevier, Cengage, McGraw Hill

Hachette, Macmillan, Elsevier, Cengage and McGraw Hill filed a class-action suit in Manhattan federal court alleging Meta pirated millions of books, textbooks and journal articles from illegal sites to train Llama without permission or compensation. It is the first US AI-training lawsuit brought by book publishers as a coordinated bloc.