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0 pointslegacynl1mo ago0 comments

> Yep and so far it looks like the issue with the meta case is they didnt pay for the book. Not that they used it in training data.

Let's not sane-wash what they did here, they didn't just 'forgot to pay for the books', they deliberately and illegally downloaded and used material that wasn't theirs to use.

If you or I did that, we would be jailed or sued into destitution. In a fair world we either should change copyright laws (allowing for anyone to freely pirate all media), or Zuckerberg needs to go to jail.

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protocolture1mo ago

>Let's not sane-wash what they did here, they didn't just 'forgot to pay for the books', they deliberately and illegally downloaded and used material that wasn't theirs to use.

Yes. Forgot is your word.

But lets face it, there wouldn't be a case to answer for if they had paid retail for each book, torn them up and scanned them and trained on that data.

>Zuckerberg needs to go to jail.

I am comfortable with that but would prefer updating copyright.

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