cirdan12
nixCraft đ§Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books. Mark is truly doing everything to avoid paying authors, remove fact-checkers, and lie. Imagine having billions in personal assets and running trillion-dollar corporations yet stealing books from poor writers/authors struggling to make ends meet. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/
Kristaps Liepins@nixCraft I really can imagine that. It's easy. What meta is doing is evil. Everybody knows that and no sane person would sell their work to promote evil. So Mark with all his treasures still has to continue stealing.
Irene@nixCraft This is exactly the way how the rich have gotten rich in the past and still do. There is no other way. Exploiting everything, form minerals to the people who mine them, grab the profits and moan that wages are too high. There's nothing new under the sun. And we knew it al along.
Alan Hicks@nixCraft
I thought paying ÂŁ25-30 per book helped authors create valuable insights, offered them a viable living, and provided me with useful knowledge.
The volume of AI slop on fb and elsewhere is depressingly awful.
I thought paying ÂŁ25-30 per book helped authors create valuable insights, offered them a viable living, and provided me with useful knowledge.
The volume of AI slop on fb and elsewhere is depressingly awful.
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@nixCraft would it be better or worse if he offered compensation in the form of "exposure" (one post on his own facebook page that links to a long, pastebin-style randomly ordered list of every author he's stolen from, obviously designed to make nobody read it)?
Takiro đ¨If you steal from a few people it's a crime, if you steal from millions it's a business model.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@nixCraft The article omits the most important part. Although the LLaMa models are advertised as open source, the license conditions for the weights explicitly waives your right to sue Meta over copyright infringement from their training of ML models. They want everyone using integrating them into their products for mutually assured destruction. The relevant text:
If you institute litigation or other proceedings against Meta or any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Llama Materials or Meta Llama 3 outputs or results, or any portion of any of the foregoing, constitutes infringement of intellectual property or other rights owned or licensable by you, then any licenses granted to you under this Agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation or claim is filed or instituted. You will indemnify and hold harmless Meta from and against any claim by any third party arising out of or related to your use or distribution of the Llama Materials.
Oren Bell@nixCraft what's worse, they didn't even seed the torrents
frank87
Aknoralsââś đ´@nixCraft I truly hate Copyright. It's an evil institution and is a global censorship regime. But Mark can eat shit. The current form of "AI" is just enclosure. Transference of Copyright from individuals to massive corporate cabals makes things even worse.
@nixCraft lucky find... using the text for your own interest isn't infringement, but maybe the authors can get something out of this.