Instead, Meta argued, available evidence "is plainly indicative" that the flagged adult content was torrented for "private personal use"-since the small amount linked to Meta IP addresses and employees represented only "a few dozen titles per year intermittently obtained one file at a time." "The far more plausible inference to be drawn from such meager, uncoordinated activity is that disparate individuals downloaded adult videos for personal use," Meta's filing said.
Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos had been used for training data by major technology companies, either for research or, in some cases, to build AI video products.