Two adult entertainment companies say Meta’s appetite for information has gotten a little kinky. Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have filed a $359 million lawsuit alleging that Meta illegally downloaded and seeded torrents of nearly 2,400 porn videos to train its artificial intelligence systems. Meta, naturally, argues that no! No! That porn was, uh…it was for personal use! Yeah, it was for…me, and not for large-scale copyright infringement!

Only in the world of AI algorithm training can you claim that you were torrenting 2,400 porn videos for personal use and have that seem like the lesser of two evils.

The lawsuit, filed in July, accuses Meta of “willfully and intentionally” pirating titles from Strike 3’s adult brands, which include Blacked, Tushy, Vixen, Tushy Raw, Slayed, Bl

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