Meta has firmly denied accusations that it used pirated adult videos to train its artificial intelligence systems, calling a recent lawsuit by adult film studio Strike 3 Holdings “nonsensical and unsupported.” The company emphasized that its AI models have never been trained on explicit material and suggested that any such downloads from its network were likely made by individuals for personal use.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims that Meta’s corporate IP addresses were linked to the illegal downloading of over 2,300 copyrighted adult films owned by Strike 3 Holdings via BitTorrent. The studio, which describes its catalog as “award-winning and critically acclaimed,” has accused Meta of using these videos to train its AI models—i

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