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.
were escalated to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (referred to as “MZ” in the memo handed over during discovery) and that Meta’s AI team was “approved to use” the pirated material.
Looks like ol Zucky got caught red handed lmao
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.
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.
looks around for consequences
Its fine when they do it and we get fined when we do it
!!NEWS FLASH!!
Meta is a massive piece of fascist shit, as is anyone employed by them.
