Summary

Court records in an ongoing lawsuit reveal that Meta staff allegedly downloaded 81.7TB of pirated books from shadow libraries like Z-Library and LibGen to train its AI models.

Internal messages show employees raising ethical concerns, with one saying, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Meta reportedly took steps to hide the activity.

The case is part of a broader debate on AI data sourcing, with similar lawsuits against OpenAI and Nvidia.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago

I said this in another thread on this subject- this is a very clear violation of the Berne Convention and Meta could find itself in court all over the world because of this.

https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/

Probably not, but I can hope.

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