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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T18:15:02.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Meta",
    "Mark zuckerberg",
    "Hollywood",
    "Ai",
    "AI is the Wild West right now",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nAI is the Wild West right now, and the lawmen are coming for it. Every day, we're tracking new laws and lawsuits because we're getting landmark cases left and right.\n\nAnd there will be staggering effects in Hollywood as these cases settle, since AI has its grip on pretty much every aspect right now.\n\nThe biggest suit in progress with Meta has huge implications for where movies and TV go with AI in the future.\n\nAccording to a recent report from _Los Angeles Magazine_ , Meta’s ongoing legal battle over AI training data has entered a new phase. It’s a class-action lawsuit that names Mark Zuckerberg personally and targets the very foundation of how generative AI is built and trained.\n\nLet's dive in.\n\n* * *\n\n## Trained on Stolen Goods\n\nOkay, so the heart of this new lawsuit, which was brought by a coalition of major publishers (including Hachette and Macmillan) and bestselling author Scott Turow, alleges that Meta actively sought out and torrented millions of copyrighted works to train its models.\n\nThe TL:DR is that they allegedly stole a bunch of stuff and then used it to train AI.\n\nNow, imagine what they did with movies and TV shows... which are torrented all the time and traded on the web.\n\nWe’ve all spent the last year hearing about \"fair use\" and \"transformative\" training of generative AI. But if the source material was acquired through stealing, that defense crumbles.\n\nAnd they owe filmmakers a lot of money.\n\nCredit: Meta\n\n## Why Zuckerberg is in the Crosshairs\n\nUsually, CEOs are shielded in these kinds of lawsuits, but the plaintiffs claim that Mark Zuckerberg \"personally authorized and actively encouraged\" the use of these pirated collections to catch up in the AI arms race.\n\nThat would not be good for him, and it would set a precedent that if a CEO can be held liable for the data-gathering practices of their AI, you can bet every studio head in Hollywood will be on the phone with general counsel to double-check their own AI initiatives to make sure it's all above board.\n\n## The \"Infinite Substitution Machine\"\n\nThis is the term that should keep every filmmaker awake at night. The lawsuit argues that Meta’s AI isn't just \"learning\" from books; it is being designed as an \"infinite substitution machine.\"\n\nThe idea is that Meta's AI program, called Llama, can recreate an author’s specific style and voice so accurately that it creates a market substitute for the original work.\n\nTo put this in Hollywood terms, imagine a tool that doesn't just \"write a script,\" but writes a script _exactly_ like Aaron Sorkin or Greta Gerwig, using their proprietary \"voice\" as the engine.\n\nWhat's at stake in a court deciding whether you own your own \"voice\" or if AI is allowed to mimic it in ways that will be used to replace you.\n\n## Why Hollywood is Watching\n\nIf publishers can’t protect their books from being fed into Llama, there is nothing stopping AI companies from doing the same with every screenplay online and every movie and TV show they can get their hands on as well.\n\nHollywood runs on personal relationships and reputations. Seeing a tech titan personally sued for \"unmitigated piracy\" changes the optics of AI from \"inevitable innovation\" to \"potential legal liability.\"\n\nWe have to hope that these courts uphold our own legal holdings.\n\n## Summing It All Up\n\nThis is a tricky situation. We're seeing pirated works used to train AI, and we're trying to figure out who had knowledge of it, and also protect our voices from future piracy as well.\n\nThis is an ongoing lawsuit we'll keep an eye on.\n\nLet us know in the comments.",
  "title": "Meta’s AI Copyright War Has Hollywood Losing Sleep"
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