"Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right," Nikolay Bashlykov, a Meta research engineer, wrote in an April 2023 ...

While Meta has denied any wrongdoing, newly unsealed messages suggest that executives and engineers were well aware of their actions – and that they were violating copyright law. The lawsuit ...

The messages ... Meta, like other AI companies, has argued that using copyrighted material in training data should constitute legal fair use. The Verge reached out to Meta with a request for ...