The article Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use” by Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica) describes Meta’s defense of its having helped itself to about 82TB of copyrighted books from illegal torrents.

“Meta, like most AI companies, holds that training must be deemed fair use, or else the entire AI industry could face immense setbacks, wasting precious time negotiating data contracts while falling behind global rivals. Meta urged the court to rule that AI training is a transformative... [More]”