Meta AI: The world’s famous tech company Meta (parent company of Facebook) is embroiled in a new controversy. Strike 3 Holdings, an adult film studio, has filed a major lawsuit against Meta, alleging that the company quietly downloaded thousands of porn movies and used them to train its AI system. This claim is not only shocking the industry but is also raising questions about whether AI companies are crossing ethical boundaries to obtain data.

Strike 3 Holdings’ allegations and how the case began

According to reports, Strike 3 Holdings says it found its copyrighted adult videos being downloaded through the BitTorrent network from an IP address associated with Meta. The studio claims that this downloading started from 2018, that is, from the time when Meta had not even formally started its AI research projects.

The company alleges that these videos were used to train Meta’s AI video generator named Movie Gen and the LLaMA language model. The studio has demanded damages of $ 350 million (about ₹ 2,900 crore) in the court and also said that Meta did all this through a secret network which included more than 2500 hidden IP addresses.

Meta said the allegations are baseless and false

Meta has completely rejected all these allegations. The company says that Strike 3’s lawsuit is baseless, absurd and based on mere speculation. Meta has asked the US court to dismiss this case, saying that there is no evidence to prove that the company used any adult content in the training of its AI models.

Meta spokesperson also said that there is a clear restriction in the company’s Terms of Service that any kind of obscene or sexual material cannot be used in any of the company’s projects.

Meta puts responsibility on employees

Meta also said in its response that even if such content has been downloaded from any network, it could be the action of an individual employee and not the company. Meta said it never allowed any employee to download such videos or use them for any research.

Questions raised on timeline

Meta says Strike 3’s claims are technically not possible because the company started its big AI projects in 2022 while the allegations date back to 2018. It is clear from such a timeline that the foundation of the case is weak.

At the same time, Strike 3 Holdings says that Meta used about 2400 of their award-winning films to train models like Movie Gen. In response, Meta called the studio a copyright troll who makes false claims to recover huge sums of money from their old cases.

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