Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”

Meta has been accused of illegally using copyrighted material to train its AI models — and the tech giant’s defense is pretty thin.

In the ongoing suit Richard Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, led by a group of authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company has argued that its alleged scraping over seven million books from the pirated library LibGen constituted “fair use” of the material, and was…