Meta Fails to Escape Porn Maker’s AI-Training Copyright Lawsuit

Meta Platforms Inc. lost its bid to dismiss an adult-film company’s lawsuit accusing the tech giant of training AI models on its copyright-protected videos.

Strike 3 Holdings LLC sufficiently alleged there was a coordinated effort across Meta IP addresses to torrent its content, Judge Eumi K. Lee said Thursday for the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

Strike 3’s investigation showed that IP addresses allegedly linked to Meta torrented files with similar files names, like “teen,” on the same day, Lee said, permitting an inference that the downloads were operated by an algorithm using key terms. “It ...