Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
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Looks like ol Zucky got caught red handed lmao
looks around for consequences
I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.
Its fine when they do it and we get fined when we do it
Off topic, but I am jealous of that handle.
Haha thanks, I was playing mass effect Andromeda at the time I though of it.
Not sure why it matters where the material came from at this point. Haven't courts already said LLM learning didn't constitute a violation of copyright? That conversation stopped very abruptly just a bit after ChatGPT became available to everyone.
The “piracy database” in question is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Screw scholarly journals and giant publishers for squeezing cash out of already-thin academics while being shitty gatekeepers, letting complete trash through while blocking others (among other things). They’re greedy, stagnant, exploitive middlemen.
Doesn’t make what Zuck\Facebook did OK, but I have zero sympathy for the monopolistic “victims” here, especially since it’s going to open weight models one can use for free.