Plaintiffs accuse Meta of hiding AI training data use behind lawyers in copyright suit

Class-action plaintiffs in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta are accusing the tech giant of hiding how it uses training data for its generative artificial intelligence products behind claims of client-lawyer privilege, urging the court to force the company to provide the information which is central to the legal complaint.

“Meta has a privilege problem: it has improperly redacted and is withholding hundreds of documents as attorney-client privileged and as work product that, in reality, are neither,”...