Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.

Wait everyone, calm down, piracy is ok if its a big corporation doing it.
138 0 Reply"Too big to fail" = "We cannot give real concequences for bad actions, but we can take a cut after the fact in the form of a weak ass fee."
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The notorious piracy database in question is Library Genesis.
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88 0 ReplyEarlier reports suggested they trained it on books from Bibliotik.
What changed?
15 0 ReplyProbably just both honestly.
25 0 ReplyThe llama-1 paper acknowledged the use of the books dataset, libgen isn't mentioned in any of the papers so this is new info.
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You heard it here first, folks! Zucc says piracy is a-ok!
47 0 ReplyWhat are you going to pirate from facebook though?
9 0 ReplyResources!
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Good. I'm sure despite us all knowing what a piece of shit meta is we will continue to use their products because such a small sacrifice is a bridge too far.
37 1 ReplyTo be honest I don't think anyone's using meta AI. I didn't even know they had an AI.
13 3 ReplyIt's called Llama and it's one of the more prominent open source LLMs. So it's got that going for it at least.
12 0 ReplyMeta ai is pretry much the basis of all open weight models. I fact i use a meta model as my main model, a dolphin fine tuning but still meta based.
9 1 ReplyIIRC Meta was one of the first companies to publicly release a language model that you could run on your computer, called llama. Hence the naming of projects like llama.cpp and ollama.
5 0 ReplyI use it to release stress, I just hurl abuse at it randomly.
4 0 ReplyOh they definitely are. AI aside if people want to see change in the way these companies operate, they need to abandon anything they make.
3 1 ReplyArticle is paywalled but had no idea either.
I’ve just not used fb or insta for years but I asked my wife who uses both regularly and she hadn’t heard of it either.
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I hope they also pirated from disney and nintendo
24 0 ReplyIt's ok omid the Zuck does it. Like when he stole land from indigenous Hawaiians.
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