Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Meta allegedly downloaded several individual episodes from the website and two “GirlsDoPorn MegaPack” archives. Piracy can be hard to track with precision, and both parties are clearly conflicted: Strike 3, in seeking damages, wants Meta to look bad, and Meta would prefer not to be associated with this kind of content. But neither the sheer volume nor the pattern of downloads looks like personal consumption.
- ▪Meta allegedly downloaded several individual episodes from the website and two “GirlsDoPorn MegaPack” archives.
- ▪Piracy can be hard to track with precision, and both parties are clearly conflicted: Strike 3, in seeking damages, wants Meta to look bad, and Meta would prefer not to be associated with this kind of content.
- ▪But neither the sheer volume nor the pattern of downloads looks like personal consumption.
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TechnologyWhy Would Meta Download So Much Porn?Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.By Alex ReisnerIllustration by Akshita Chandra / The AtlanticJuly 24, 2026, 3:15 PM ET ShareSave Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.Amid tech companies’ ongoing efforts to vacuum up as much data as possible to train AI models, Meta has taken public posts from its own platforms, scraped massive amounts of content from the rest of the internet, and pirated millions of books to train its AI models.
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