Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’
Johanna Costigan
created: Sept. 19, 2025, 10:30 a.m. | updated: Sept. 23, 2025, 8:56 a.m.
The complaint, filed in July, alleges Meta has been torrenting and seeding Strike 3’s videos since 2018.
This process made Strike 3’s porn videos accessible to minors, the complaint alleges, since BitTorrent does not have age verification.
Meta used and continues to use Strike 3’s porn “for distribution as currency to support its downloading of a vast array of other content necessary to train its AI models,” the complaint alleges.
But it also lists titles of non–Strike 3 porn videos that may include very young actors, such as: ExploitedTeens, Anal Teens, Asian Teen Masturbation, CasualTeenSex, and EuroTeenErotica.
Imagine a middle school student asks a Meta AI model for a video about pizza delivery, he says, and before you know it, it’s porn.
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