Zuckerberg Appeared to Know Meta Trained AI on Pirated Library

The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram.

As first revealed in a motion filed by attorneys for novelists Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey and comedian Sarah Silverman, who are pursuing a class-action suit against Meta for allegedly using their copyrighted work…