Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg personally approved the massive copyright infringement of books and articles to train his company’s artificial intelligence systems, according to a lawsuit. Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow took legal action against the tech giant on Tuesday amid an ongoing dispute between AI developers and the literary world. Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette , Macmillan and McGraw Hill allege that Meta pirated millions of their copyrighted works to train its large language model (LLM) Llama. "Meta’s mass-scale infringement isn’t public progress, and AI will never be properly realized if tech companies prioritize pirate sites over ⁠scholarship and imagination," Maria Pallante, president of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement.…