Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI 'Superintelligence'

The complaint, filed in July, alleges Meta has been torrenting and seeding Strike 3's videos since 2018. Associated exhibits and details of the complaint were unsealed last week. Strike 3 alleges Meta's motive was partly to obtain otherwise difficult to scrape visual angles, parts of the human body, and extended, uninterrupted scenes--rare in mainstream movies and TV--to help it create what Mark Zuckerberg calls AI "superintelligence." "They have an interest in getting our content because it can give them a competitive advantage for the quality, fluidity, and humanity of the AI," alleges Christian Waugh, an attorney for Strike 3. This process made Strike 3's porn videos accessible to minors, the complaint alleges, since BitTorrent does not have age verification.