ElwoodBlues · M
With more pitfalls for everyone.
I just came across this article about Meta AKA FaceBook torrenting dozens of terabytes of books that were then used to train their AI. Copyright violation on a MASSIVE scale, and I doubt Meta is the only one.
I just came across this article about Meta AKA FaceBook torrenting dozens of terabytes of books that were then used to train their AI. Copyright violation on a MASSIVE scale, and I doubt Meta is the only one.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@ElwoodBlues A lot of creatives are furious about this. They are just being ripped off.