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Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say

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Meta admitted to torrenting large dataset known as LibGen , which includes tens of millions of pirated books.

Last month , book authors accused the company of training its AI models on pirated material.

The unredacted emails reveal the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in copyright case.

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