Five publishing giants and Scott Turow sue Meta over Llama training

In what marks the first major copyright infringement lawsuit brought against an artificial intelligence company by leading book and journal publishers, five of the world's largest publishing houses—Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, and McGraw Hill—together with bestselling author Scott Turow, filed a class-action suit against Meta Platforms and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on May 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.