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They say Meta used pirated books to train their AI model. Let's uncover it.

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Jafar Najafov
February 08, 2025 • Read this in 8 minutes

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In today’s post:

  • Mistral’s AI assistant and its insane power

  • Meta is accused of using pirated books to train AI

  • Google’s adding watermarks on AI photos

  • Trending AI tools + More AI news

What’s Trending Today

MISTRAL

Mistral’s AI Assistant Is Now on Your Phone But Will You Use It?

Mistral just rolled out its AI assistant, Le Chat, on iOS and Android.

Here’s what’s interesting about it:

  • Mistral is Europe’s big AI bet, often seen as a rival to OpenAI and Anthropic.

  • Le Chat now has a mobile app, making it easier to use on the go—just like ChatGPT or Google Gemini.

  • It’s fast. Mistral claims it can generate up to 1,000 words per second, which is pretty wild.

  • Image generation? Yep, they’ve got that too, powered by Flux Ultra.

  • There’s a Pro tier ($14.99/month) that gives you access to its best model and the ability to opt out of data sharing.

  • But there’s no voice mode yet: so if you prefer talking to AI assistants, this might be a dealbreaker.

Here’s what I think:

Mistral is trying to carve out space in an AI world dominated by U.S. giants. The speed and image generation are cool, but will people switch from ChatGPT or Gemini? That’s the real test.

Would you give Le Chat a try?

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META

Meta’s AI Trained on Pirated Books And They Knew It

Another day, another AI controversy and this time, Meta is in hot water for training its AI models on pirated books. And it’s not just speculation—newly unsealed emails show that Meta’s own employees were raising red flags about it.

Here’s what’s going on:

  • Authors like Sarah Silverman are suing Meta, claiming their books were used without permission.

  • Internal emails reveal that Meta engineers knowingly downloaded pirated datasets, including from LibGen and Z-Library.

  • In one email, a researcher even admitted that "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right" but they did it anyway.

  • Meta allegedly tried to hide its tracks by using external servers, calling it “stealth mode.”

  • The lawsuit could get messy: Meta has argued this falls under “fair use,” but with emails proving they knew it was sketchy, that defense might fall apart.

Here’s what I think:

This isn’t just a legal headache for Meta and it’s an ethical disaster. If they knowingly built AI models using stolen content, what does that say about the future of AI-generated work? It’s one thing to debate fair use, but when your own team is worried they’re breaking the law… that’s a different story.

What do you think does this change how you see AI companies?

GOOGLE

Google’s New AI Watermark: A Step Forward or Just a Patch?

AI-generated images are everywhere, and Google thinks it has a solution: invisible watermarks. The company just introduced SynthID, a digital marker embedded in AI-created or AI-edited photos. You can’t see it, but Google’s tools can detect it.

Here’s what’s interesting:

  • The watermark is built into the pixels, so even if you crop, resize, or filter an image, it should still be detectable.

  • Google is rolling this out on its AI tools, like the Magic Editor on Pixel devices and its text-to-image model, Imagen.

  • The goal? More transparency—so people know when an image has been altered by AI.

  • But there’s a catch: Not all AI tools use watermarks, so bad actors can just sidestep them.

  • Experts say SynthID is a good step, but without a universal standard across platforms, it won’t solve AI misinformation on its own.

Here’s what I think:

It’s smart for Google to build this in, but let’s be real AI-generated content isn’t slowing down. If only some companies watermark their images and others don’t, it’s easy to game the system. Transparency is great, but without industry-wide adoption (or tougher regulations), this might just be another band-aid.

Would a watermark change how much you trust an image?

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