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Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs (arstechnica.com)
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In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported.

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 days ago

Getting paid for all that responsibility and then blaming everything on your underlings is a tough job. Only sociopaths can handle the stress.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

I'm sure Fuckerberg isn't losing a single second of sleep when he throws Facebook employees under the bus.

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