New Meta Emails Reveal That the Company Downloaded 81.7 TB of Copyrighted Books via BitTorrent to Train Its AI Models
https://www.xatakaon.com/robotics-and-ai/new-meta-emails-reveal-that-the-company-downloaded-81-7-tb-of-copyrighted-books-via-bittorrent-to-train-its-ai-models
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so piracy is legal if you are rich and above the law.
Each and every AI model owes money NOW.
They used the books in a questionable way and now it turns out that they didn’t even pay to acquire the books?
Pretty darned sure that’s not a copyright violation. Pretty sure that’s straight up theft.
82 tb of books is ALOT
Just imagine all those letters Zuck is going to get demanding he pay a fine for pirating, like the one I got for downloading a movie from torrent site eons ago.
Ooooh, I would hate to be in his shoes right now. /s
The creators of Deepseek are smirking right now.
Facebook was always a bad actor. Do you remember when they had sold profiles of their users for electioneering. Interesting enough Bannon was mastermind of that as I recall.
Why is it that crime is only for everyone except the officials who had this done?
Why don’t they go to jail and prison too?
If only people lower and less rich can get in trouble we have an unjust law. Legal for the rich illegal for you.
Criminal for you legal for the rich.
Wait for it – Mark will say they bought everything in it’s Kindle
I feel like most people don’t realize how much books 82TB is. This is a fucking massive amount.
as much money as they have and earn, they are still too fucking cheap to reimburse the libraries, the authors, the archivists for the information they use.
Silicon Valley business ethics is to mask yourself as a “successful unicorn” while being a grifter par excellence.
Industrialized piracy? I actually admire that.
You. wouldn’t. steal. a. car.
The government: piracy for me but not for thee. Patriots turned privateers. GOP is a Joke
I remember back in the Napster days when the record companies sued individuals for every copy of the songs they shared.
Napster itself got wiped out because of a $100million lawsuit by Metallica. They sued for $100,000 per download of their track for the 300,000 users.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc.
It’s gonna be interesting arguing they’re simple users and not distributors in court.
Btw, LibGen is still up and running (contrary to what this article says).
Remember Aaron Swartz?
Crimes are only crimes if they are poor against rich, rich against richer, or poor against poor. Rich against poor is legal. Please refer to the entire span of human history for examples..
Every AI program gets “smart” by skimming every corner of the internet without consent.
So, sailing the high seas is legit?!
Meta would download a car
So…crimes. They committed crimes.
No problem. Meta paid Trump $25 million to “settle a lawsuit”, another million for Trump’s inauguration (after the election), and is officially allowing right-wing misinformation on Facebook and Instagram. Meta is now above the law.
We gonna see AI wars before WW3.
What, you were expecting the biggest criminals in the world to PAY for what they steal? Ha! Just remember kids, if you get charged for piracy it’s proof of a two tiered justice system.
FaceBook? More like TakeBook ammmirittte?
An ebook is what, 5mb? 10mb? Just imagine how many books they downloaded to reach 82tb!
Sounds like those publishing companies own meta now. Or at least they should if the US wasn’t completely corrupt and broken.
Nobody’s asking the real question: What’s their share ratio like??
And when they get an email from their ISP they’ll get what’s coming to them!
When Aaron Swartz did this Carmen Ortiz drove the kid to suicide. He should have said he was just “training his AI model.”
In memoriam Aaron Swartz.
Fucking leaches. Delete Facebook, quit buying on Amazon, sell your tesla stock and wear contraceptive.
Piracy is legal if you make sure you are at Trumps inauguration. Delete and remove Facebook and instagram. Feels real good.
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