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Meta executive faces lawsuit for torrenting 20k porn videos from his home (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Allegedly as part of a scheme to get data for the company to train AI and develop adult VR tech while shielding it from legal liability

“In short, this is a lot for one person to torrent on an average day, particularly one who has a demanding job,” Strike 3 writes. The company believes the pattern makes more sense as AI training data or research.

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[-] waltersf@bookwyr.me 40 points 3 weeks ago

He can legally do it now!

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe, although it looks like the company is trying to say they didn't do it

However, even if the subscriber is who Strike 3 claims, Meta argues that nothing ties the downloads to the company.

“They simply assume that the Subscriber is responsible for everything done on the IP address, and then leap to the additional, similarly unsupported assumption that he did it for Meta,” Meta writes.

So presumably the executive himself would not be able to use an "it was for AI" defense since they don't even want to admit it

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

He doesn't have to be training for Facebook. He can be doing it on the side. Training is training.

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