[HN Gopher] Torrenting from a Meta-owned corporate laptop doesn'...
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Torrenting from a Meta-owned corporate laptop doesn't feel right
Author : hdjjhhvvhga
Score : 14 points
Date : 2025-01-11 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| catlikesshrimp wrote:
| Clickbait. Real title:
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| "Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database,
| Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal"
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| Which is "old news"
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| Disable javascript to read or: https://archive.ph/Kp29q
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| Title of the article vs a salacious quote (newly revealed in
| court documents) doesn't reach the threshold of clickbait IMO,
| Meta engineers really were torrenting libgen with the CEOs
| approval (this is the part that's not old news)
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| Previously it was just "books3 was part of the training data",
| now it's "MZ was made aware of pirated materials, gave the go
| ahead, and by way of torrenting Meta engineers _redistributed_
| the copyrighted materials, which is outlawed whether or not
| you're training a super intelligence.
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| Personally I'm not a fan of enforcing copyright law in general,
| but I'm especially not a fan of corporations getting to skirt
| laws that the little people are made to obey. If Meta wants to
| train on libgen, they should have partnered with internet
| archive and provided them better lawyers.
| throw5959 wrote:
| You don't know whether they seeded anything. Or anything
| recognizably copyrightable.
| ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
| I thought it is common knowledge that every single AI company
| trained on pirated datasets.
| metalman wrote:
| getting to watch someone steal a cake and eat it too
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