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Meta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

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[-] brisk@aussie.zone 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Secret out-of-court settlement is an option.

Also known as "bribing your way out of the law"

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 2 years ago

They'll compare the amount the publishers are demanding against how much it would cost them to lawyer up to prevent that and any future payments. Meta's heavyweight enough that they can use "lobbying their way out of the law, aka changing the law so that they're not violating it at all" as a strategy.

If they do simply pay the publishers off, oh well, at least it's just the status quo. But I don't see a reason to assume that's the way this is going to go. Other countries have already carved explicit exceptions to copyright for AI training, Meta would be in favor of that kind of thing.

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