Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,"
and to top it all off, they're goddamn leechers!
81.7TB is so many fucking books
half of it is the complete works of chuck tingle
SWIM has a folder of 9GB of books and it's a lot. This is almost ten thousand times that many.
chuck is very prolific
"Pounded in the butt by the AI graduated from Facebook's pirate training operation, but not very well compared to the lean efficiency of the pounding provided by DeepSeek with significantly less illegal torrenting, despite the eyepatch and parrot."
one of my personal favorites from chuck's january 2025 ouevre
They should be getting a cease and desist letter any day now
Corporation pirates millions of books to train AI: No charge
Bourgeois individual commits billions of dollars in fraud: 40 months in country club prison
Homeless man steals $100 and gives it back: 15 years in general population prison
Any questions?
jfc, please tell me he appealed the sentence
“so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,”
They can't even pirate ethically, fucking landlubbers
Another reason for the wall
Plank
Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,"
Imagine having all that corporate funding and still cutting costs on...stealing information.
torrenting and seeding of pirated books
downloading them from libgen over http
Wish I had 81tb of disk :sadness:
It “read” more books than most ever will and yet it still fails to write a decent story
People love stories. And who has a better story than Frogman from lake?
JasonDJ, of course. A literary giant among men.
I can't write for shit either, where's my trillion dollar stock valuation?
much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta.
While I guess that Meta may have used settings to be leech only. Unless they show that they did that (which is of course poor practice if torrenting), the nature of torrenting by default means that even one piece of a file was seeded to another user is "distribution."
expropriation now
So this will result in criminal charges against all involved, right?
Right?
:no-waying:
We all knew Meta was evil, but damn.
Jokes on them, they could've easily connected to a number of IRC servers/channels through a basic proxy and used scripts to download at least as many books with relative anonymity... albeit slower.
They don't follow the law.
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