在关于 AI 训练的版权诉讼中，Meta 已花费数周时间指责员工下载种子。据 TorrentFreak 报道，法院现已责令 Meta 点名授权决定从安娜档案和 LibGen 等影子图书馆盗版书籍的高管。
In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported.
在影响由书籍作者——包括理查德·卡德雷和莎拉·西尔弗曼——提起的集体诉讼，以及出版商 Entrepreneur Media 提起的诉讼的证据开示令中，美国联邦治安法官托马斯·希克森基本同意 Meta 必须明确指出关键决策者。在 Meta 员工作证称其下载种子后，该命令可能牵涉出员工所说批准盗版行为的更广泛的主管、经理和高管。
In a discovery order impacting a class action raised by book authors—including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman—as well as a lawsuit from publisher Entrepreneur Media, Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixon largely agreed that Meta must clearly identify key decision-makers. Following testimony from Meta staff who downloaded torrents, the order could expose a wider range of supervisors, managers, and executives whom staffers said greenlit the piracy.
Meta 此前一直希望避免详述指挥链，特别是涉及早期 AI 训练的领导层。根据 Meta 的一份法庭文件，其最初编纂海量 AI 数据集的工作是通过一种“非正式方式”进行管理的，所谓没有任何有权力的人做出过决定。相反，Meta 坚称“决定”仅仅是“在……意义上”由一些员工“技术上”下载了种子而“作出”的。
Meta had been hoping to avoid detailing the chain of command, particularly for leadership involved in early AI training. According to a Meta court filing, its initial efforts to compile massive AI datasets were managed through an “informal approach" where supposedly nobody with authority made any decisions. Instead, Meta insisted that a “decision” was “made only in the sense” that some staffers “technically” downloaded torrents.