JemmyMeta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
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Wait everyone, calm down, piracy is ok if its a big corporation doing it.
"Too big to fail" = "We cannot give real concequences for bad actions, but we can take a cut after the fact in the form of a weak ass fee."
The notorious piracy database in question is Library Genesis.
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Earlier reports suggested they trained it on books from Bibliotik.
What changed?
halcyoncmdrThe llama-1 paper acknowledged the use of the books dataset, libgen isn't mentioned in any of the papers so this is new info.
You heard it here first, folks! Zucc says piracy is a-ok!
What are you going to pirate from facebook though?
jaredResources!
Like wood and stone? Sweet
Whatever's not nailed down, unless you've got a hammer!
Good. I'm sure despite us all knowing what a piece of shit meta is we will continue to use their products because such a small sacrifice is a bridge too far.
To be honest I don't think anyone's using meta AI. I didn't even know they had an AI.
It's called Llama and it's one of the more prominent open source LLMs. So it's got that going for it at least.
🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖Meta ai is pretry much the basis of all open weight models. I fact i use a meta model as my main model, a dolphin fine tuning but still meta based.
DUMBASSArticle is paywalled but had no idea either.
I’ve just not used fb or insta for years but I asked my wife who uses both regularly and she hadn’t heard of it either.
IIRC Meta was one of the first companies to publicly release a language model that you could run on your computer, called llama. Hence the naming of projects like llama.cpp and ollama.
Oh they definitely are. AI aside if people want to see change in the way these companies operate, they need to abandon anything they make.
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Sir, this is a Wendy's
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I was curious to see if Wendy's was on the BDS list. It's not, but I also found this post, which is quite a trip. https://old.reddit.com/r/wendys/comments/1b25k3b/boycott/
The “piracy database” in question is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Screw scholarly journals and giant publishers for squeezing cash out of already-thin academics while being shitty gatekeepers, letting complete trash through while blocking others (among other things). They’re greedy, stagnant, exploitive middlemen.
Doesn’t make what Zuck\Facebook did OK, but I have *zero* sympathy for the monopolistic “victims” here, especially since it’s going to open weight models one can use for free.
Looks like ol Zucky got caught red handed lmao
*looks around for consequences*
I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.
Its fine when they do it and we get fined when we do it
Off topic, but I am jealous of that handle.
Haha thanks, I was playing mass effect Andromeda at the time I though of it.
Not sure why it matters where the material came from at this point. Haven't courts already said LLM learning didn't constitute a violation of copyright? That conversation stopped very abruptly just a bit after ChatGPT became available to everyone.
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