Authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, allege Meta's illegal use of copyrighted materials to build AI models.

Meta Platforms trained its AI models using pirated versions of copyrighted books, with the approval of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to newly disclosed court papers, a group of authors is alleging that the social media giant knew they were using pirated work to train their AI systems.

The cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted in AI training,” Musk said. “That happened basically last year.”

Elon Musk says he's worried that "we’ve exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge" for training AIs. The solution: just have the AI make something up. The Latest Tech News, Delivered t

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],