Meta has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the company of stealing nearly 2,400 adult video clips for AI training purposes. The case was brought by Strike 3 Holdings, known for distributing adult content under the Vixen, Blacked, and Tushy brands.
The lawsuit, originally filed in July 2025, claimed that Meta employees allegedly used BitTorrent to download 2,396 videos dating back to 2018, potentially to train artificial intelligence models. Strike 3 also argued that some downloads were traced to corporate IP addresses, suggesting direct company involvement rather than just actions by individual employees. The company sought damages of $350 million.
Meta rejected the allegations in its motion to dismiss, stating that only 157 of the nearly 2,400 videos were downloaded from corporate IPs. The company emphasized that the downloads were conducted by employees, contractors, or casual users on the corporate network for personal purposes, and that the small sample size makes it implausible that the content was used for AI training.
“Plaintiffs have stitched together a narrative based on speculation and insinuation, but their claims are neither compelling nor supported by concrete evidence,” Meta stated in court documents.
The tech giant also clarified that it does not develop AI models specifically for adult content and has no plans to do so.
This is not the first case of its kind. In September 2023, a group of 17 authors filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, alleging copyright infringement.
