Meta is pushing a legal strategy in an ongoing lawsuit that would place blame for the downloading of pirated books on rank-and-file employees, rather than on company leadership, according to Ars Technica.
The core of Meta's argument, as reported by Ars Technica, is that no one at the company made a deliberate or conscious decision to pirate books for use in training its artificial intelligence models. By framing the downloads as something that happened without a clear decision-maker, Meta appears to be attempting to avoid executive accountability for the practice.
The case involves the use of torrented book content that was reportedly obtained to help train Meta's AI systems. The strategy of directing scrutiny toward lower-level staff rather than senior executives has drawn attention as the lawsuit progresses.
Further details on the specific legal claims, the plaintiffs involved, or the current stage of the proceedings were not provided in the available sources.
