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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm no fan of megacorps, and I definitely know that they are breaking the law. However, copyright laws should change so that any schmuck can use any text to train any AI. I'm all for punishing mega corporations and I understand that they play by their own set of rules (that is unfair), but piracy is piracy even when mega corporations do it and I believe that piracy is the moral choice. Meta then choosing to make their model not fully open I definitely have a problem with and that does not meet my bar for okay, but I strongly believe that all information for all people or entities should be free to transfer without restriction.

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's okay when the bourgeois does it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Yeah, but we're not looking at the root cause here. Their purpose is to train energy glutton, error prone "AI" even if experience teaches us that those ML models fuck up more often than confirmation bias allows.

"AI" is a bourgeoise and Capitalist tool and, same as with cryptocurrency, we cannot dismantle the master's house with the master's tools. Fuck AI down the drain. Make things with your own minds, your own hands.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's even more okay when the bourgeoisie does it in the interest of potential profit gain.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Meta has acknowledged using parts of the Books3 dataset but argued that its use of copyrighted works to train LLMs did not require "consent, credit, or compensation." The company refutes claims of infringing the plaintiffs' "alleged" copyrights, contending that any unauthorized copies of copyrighted works in Books3 should be considered fair use.

Furthermore, Meta is disputing the validity of maintaining the legal action as a Class Action lawsuit, refusing to provide any monetary "relief" to the suing authors or others involved in the Books3 controversy. The dataset, which includes copyrighted material sourced from the pirate site Bibliotik, was targeted in 2023 by the Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance, demanding that digital archiving of the Books3 dataset should be banned and is using DMCA notices to enforce those takedowns.

Yet they'll ~~spend~~ waste billions on metaverse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how they feel about someone else using scraped Facebook posts to train an LLM

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What sort of crack are they on that they think unauthorized use of an entire work for commercial gain is fair use? I think copywrite laws are ridiculous but that is a pretty low bar they are trying to set.

They should have to pay for their usage or retrain the model without it. Going to guess they would prefer to pay up.

[–] [email protected] 132 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ain't it great!!!

The law protects mega corps but not peasants.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Rules for thee but not for me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In I2P we trust 🙏 Can't sue what you can't find.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's like Tor, but different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well it wasn't made by the US Navy, it doesn't allow for clearnet traffic, it allows torrenting over the protocol. I'm sure there are other differences too.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

Aye exactly mate, down with the mega corps!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Who doesn't?

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