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Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

3Mb is mostly the cover art.

The text is usually only 100-150kb. So if they only got text, it could be 20x higher.

$44T, now we are talking about real money.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I mean, 4x the market cap of Meta, 80x, it makes little difference. The key is the book publishers should end up owning Meta. Again, I wouldn't expect them to necessarily turn Facebook into some revitalized utopia. But I think at least a bunch of stodgy old book publishers wouldn't be so overtly cartoonishly fascist at the very least.

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