Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, Meta comes out and accuses a random man of hosting a trove of illegally torrented smut.

The whole thing started with a July lawsuit by an adult film companies Strike 3 — which has been called the “most active copyright litigant in the United States” — and Counterlife Media.

To make a long story short, the two rightsholders essentially accused Meta of illegally torrenting some 2,400 skin flicks to train its AI systems. Their civil suit seeks a combined $359 million in damages, and alleges Meta could be developing a secret “adult version” of its generative AI software, Movie Gen.

It wouldn’t exactly be uncharacteristic of Meta, which was found to have fed over seven million illegally-pirated books, articles, and magazines into its AI earlier this

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