{"id":167422,"date":"2025-09-19T10:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167422\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:39:06","slug":"meta-accused-of-torrenting-porn-to-advance-its-goal-of-ai-superintelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/167422\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI \u2018Superintelligence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes \u201chigh quality,\u201d \u201cfeminist,\u201d and \u201cethical\u201d adult videos, is suing Meta in a federal court in California for allegedly infringing its copyright-protected content and using it to train AI models. The complaint, filed in July, alleges<\/a> Meta has been torrenting and seeding Strike 3\u2019s videos since 2018. Associated exhibits and details of the complaint<\/a> were unsealed last week.<\/p>\n

Strike 3 alleges Meta\u2019s motive was partly to obtain otherwise difficult to scrape visual angles, parts of the human body, and extended, uninterrupted scenes\u2014rare in mainstream movies and TV\u2014to help it create what Mark Zuckerberg calls AI \u201csuperintelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have an interest in getting our content because it can give them a competitive advantage for the quality, fluidity, and humanity of the AI,\u201d alleges Christian Waugh, an attorney for Strike 3.<\/p>\n

The complaint also claims Meta BitTorrented and distributed 2,396 of Strike 3\u2019s copyright-protected porn videos, meaning it allegedly used the BitTorrent protocol to download and distribute large files, which is illegal if the downloaded files are copyrighted. This process made Strike 3\u2019s porn videos accessible to minors, the complaint alleges, since BitTorrent does not have age verification. Meta used and continues to use Strike 3\u2019s porn \u201cfor distribution as currency to support its downloading of a vast array of other content necessary to train its AI models,\u201d the complaint alleges.<\/p>\n

The Exhibits list includes titles Meta allegedly took from a variety of non-pornographic sources, such as episodes of Yellowstone, Modern Family, The Bachelor, South Park, and Downton Abbey, among other mainstream television shows.<\/p>\n

But they also list titles of non-Strike 3 porn videos that may include very young actors, such as: ExploitedTeens, Anal Teens, Asian Teen Masturbation, CasualTeenSex, and EuroTeenErotica. The list includes titles relating to weapons, such as: 3D Gun Print and Gun Digest Shooter\u2019s Guide to the AR-15. It also features materials called Antifa\u2019s Radical Plan and, ironically, Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace.<\/p>\n

Using adult content as training data is \u201ca public relations disaster waiting to happen,\u201d says Matthew Sag, professor of law in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science at Emory University. Imagine a middle school student asks a Meta AI model for a video about pizza delivery, he says, and before you know it, it\u2019s porn.<\/p>\n

Per the lawsuit, Strike 3 has \u201cdeveloped, owns, and operates\u201d infringement detection systems that allowed it to identify Meta\u2019s alleged violations, which it says took place via 47 distinct Meta-affiliated IP addresses. Based on statutory infringement penalties, the company is demanding $350 million.<\/p>\n

Christopher Sgro, a Meta spokesperson, told WIRED: \u201cWe\u2019re reviewing the complaint, but we don\u2019t believe Strike\u2019s claims are accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Meta researchers, its V-JEPA 2<\/a> \u201cworld model,\u201d released in June, was trained on<\/a> one million hours of \u201cinternet video\u201d\u2014a term Strike 3\u2019s complaint points out is left unspecified. The company\u2019s AI ambitions are both grand and rooted in the personal: Zuckerberg has said<\/a> publicly Meta plans to put \u201cthe power of superintelligence into people\u2019s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.\u201d Meta\u2019s signature smart glasses, for example, are designed to give users \u201cpersonal superintelligence,\u201d Zuckerberg reiterated<\/a> at the Meta Connect event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strike 3 Holdings, a company that says it makes \u201chigh quality,\u201d \u201cfeminist,\u201d and \u201cethical\u201d adult videos, is suing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,23517,12424,1282,28920,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-167422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-copyright","12":"tag-mark-zuckerberg","13":"tag-meta","14":"tag-porn","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}