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cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

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One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
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  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    Wait everyone, calm down, piracy is ok if its a big corporation doing it.

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      “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.

    Cached article:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20250110075821/https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-lawsuit/

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      Earlier reports suggested they trained it on books from Bibliotik.

      What changed?

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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        Probably just both honestly.

        • rumba@lemmy.zip
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          In for a penny and for a pound.

      • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world
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        The 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!

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      What are you going to pirate from facebook though?

      • jared@mander.xyz
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        Resources!

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          Like wood and stone? Sweet

          • EvilBit@lemmy.world
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            True fact: Zuckerberg has wood for sheep.

            • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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              Remember that video in his backyard, when he said he gets rockhard for the meats.

          • jared@mander.xyz
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            Whatever’s not nailed down, unless you’ve got a hammer!

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              Might want to bring one. There’s probably a lot of copper in those walls.

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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.

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      To be honest I don’t think anyone’s using meta AI. I didn’t even know they had an AI.

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        It’s called Llama and it’s one of the more prominent open source LLMs. So it’s got that going for it at least.

      • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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        Meta 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.

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        IIRC 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.

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        I use it to release stress, I just hurl abuse at it randomly.

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        Article 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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        Oh they definitely are. AI aside if people want to see change in the way these companies operate, they need to abandon anything they make.

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    I hope they also pirated from disney and nintendo

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    It’s ok omid the Zuck does it. Like when he stole land from indigenous Hawaiians.

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    Removed by mod

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      Sir, this is a Wendy’s

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        SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICH REPRESENTATION

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          I was curious to see if Wendy’s was on the BDS list. It’s not, but I also found this post, which is quite a trip. https://old.reddit.com/r/wendys/comments/1b25k3b/boycott/

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