Court documents show Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, and employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'

ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 days ago

Court documents show Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, and employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'

regrub@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

I really hope the publishers sue for all the damages they can. Unlike average people, Meta has lots of money to lose, and it couldn’t happen to a worse company.

adarza@lemmy.ca · 4 days ago

81.7 terabytes of books
(‘more than’, but we’ll use this figure)

➗ divided by ➗

1 mebibyte per work
(the samples of digital novels i used here to estimate size per work were around 500kb each; i took that and doubled it)

✖️ multiplied by ✖️

$250,000 maximum fine (per infringement)

🟰 equals 🟰

$19.48 trillion maximum fine.

regrub@lemmy.world · 4 days ago

Corporate death penalty pls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution They stepped on the toes of several companies with lots of lawyers.

Court documents show Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, and employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'

Court documents show Meta torrented terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, and employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'

Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right'