”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
arstechnica.com
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

They also didn’t seed,

Supposedly, Meta tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to “avoid” the “risk” of anyone “tracing back the seeder/downloader” from Facebook servers, an internal message from Meta researcher Frank Zhang said, while describing the work as in “stealth mode.” Meta also allegedly modified settings “so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur,” a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    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?