then again, there are options, and all of this may amount to nothing
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:36 am
Not a great week for Zuckerberg’s PR team, with a ecuador b2b leads new report suggesting that Meta may have used torrent software to illegally download copyright-protected books, which it then added into the datasets used to train its AI models. And Zuck himself may have approved such use.
Probably not a great way to enhance its appeal to creators in its apps.
According to a new report from Wired, the revelation was included as part of a copyright case filed by a group of authors against Meta over the development of its AI datasets. Documents released by the court show that Meta used a tool called “Library Genesis” (LibGen) to access pirated versions of books in order to help build its datasets.
As per Wired:
“These newly unredacted documents reveal exchanges between Meta employees unearthed in the discovery process, like a Meta engineer telling a colleague that they hesitated to access LibGen data because “torrenting from a [Meta-owned] corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”. They also allege that internal discussions about using LibGen data were escalated to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (referred to as “MZ” in the memo handed over during discovery) and that Meta’s AI team was “approved to use” the pirated material.”
Probably not a great way to enhance its appeal to creators in its apps.
According to a new report from Wired, the revelation was included as part of a copyright case filed by a group of authors against Meta over the development of its AI datasets. Documents released by the court show that Meta used a tool called “Library Genesis” (LibGen) to access pirated versions of books in order to help build its datasets.
As per Wired:
“These newly unredacted documents reveal exchanges between Meta employees unearthed in the discovery process, like a Meta engineer telling a colleague that they hesitated to access LibGen data because “torrenting from a [Meta-owned] corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”. They also allege that internal discussions about using LibGen data were escalated to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (referred to as “MZ” in the memo handed over during discovery) and that Meta’s AI team was “approved to use” the pirated material.”