It’s no longer just AI companies & their founders being sued over AI training - individual researchers are now being sued, too.
In a new lawsuit, two authors allege that Guillaume Lample, while an AI researcher at Meta, torrented 70 terabytes of pirated books for training Llama. (He later co-founded Mistral.) They also accuse Joelle Pineau, a former VP of AI Research, of being involved.
Suspect we will see more researchers sued in this way as the discovery process in other lawsuits reveals who was involved in getting copyrighted work for training.