Meta claims that thousands of pirated adult videos it was accused of using for AI training may have been downloaded by 'disparate individuals' for 'personal use'

Usually, when adult videos are discovered on a device, the response is to claim some grander purpose for their existence. Well, Meta isn't one to bow to convention, apparently, as it has recently struck back at claims that adult videos were used to train its AI models, claiming that they may have been downloaded for 'personal use' instead.

In July of this year, a company called Strike 3 Holdings filed a suit against Meta, alleging that Meta had pirated "at least" 2,396 adult videos for use in its AI training. The original suit [PDF warning] filing claims that Meta, through BitTorrent, downloaded "award-winning, critically acclaimed adult motion pictures", referred to as Works, to "train its Meta Movie Gen, Large Language Model (“LLaMA”), as well as various other Meta AI Models that rely o