Meta denies using pirated porn to train AI, says downloads were for ‘personal use’

Meta has denied allegations that it used adult content pirated from the web to train its AI models. The statement from Meta comes in response to a lawsuit filed by adult film production company Strike 3 Holdings, which stated that Meta corporate IP addresses were used to download thousands of adult films via BitTorrent.

​The studio claimed that Meta pirated at least 2,396 of its “award-winning, critically acclaimed adult motion pictures” to train its Meta Movie Gen, Large Language Model (“LLaMA”), as well as various other Meta AI Models that…