Meta is so desperate for data sources to train its AI it weighed risking copyright lawsuits: report

• Tech giants have been scrambling to find new data sources to train their AI systems.
• Meta considered several ways to harvest data, including buying Simon & Schuster, the Times reported.
• It also considered dealing with lawsuits instead of negotiating licensing deals, the Times wrote.

Tech giants are scrambling to find new data sources to fuel the AI arms race.

And at Meta, the issue has been so critical that executives met almost daily in March and April of last year to hash out a plan, The New York Times reported.