Authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, allege Meta's illegal use of copyrighted materials to build AI models.

Meta allegedly used copyrighted journals, books and other materials from the LibGen dataset to train its Llama AI models.

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Elon Musk says he's worried that "we’ve exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge" for training AIs. The solution: just have the AI make something up. The Latest Tech News, Delivered t