Summary
Court records in an ongoing lawsuit reveal that Meta staff allegedly downloaded 81.7TB of pirated books from shadow libraries like Z-Library and LibGen to train its AI models.
Internal messages show employees raising ethical concerns, with one saying, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”
Meta reportedly took steps to hide the activity.
The case is part of a broader debate on AI data sourcing, with similar lawsuits against OpenAI and Nvidia.
Yeah, that’s one of the slogans they use to manipulate you. It’s like the one going around before elections. Both parties are the same and so an outsider is needed, like Trump. How’s that working out for the US right now?
Curious how you defend a Big Tech company, you imagine a “they” who manipulate people (straight from the right wing book, or maybe you have a clear answer to who “they” are?), and then claim it’s the same thing that got Trump in power.
One could argue that what helped Trump a lot was Big Tech totally unchecked…
Why lie about me? Oh well, when Ayn Rand’s ideology is being passed off as socialism then I might as well be.
Could I be talking about those corporations demanding money? Those rich, famous and well-connected people demanded their capitalist rents? Who knows? Big mystery.