Publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over AI training
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The Washington Post
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Five publishers and an author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative AI platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.
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LaFarad5Win or loose, it won't matter to Meta. If they loose, it's a fine they can comfortably pay and carry on. They have the data, they can't untrain the model. If judges said they had to delete all of their AI code because it was trained on copyrighted data, then that would change things.
alan-a.bsky.social3Another tech bro that has zero ethics if making money is at stake. Delete your Facebook and Instagram apps.
pecky2
Evil. Pure and simple. Our tech overlords will break our brains for a couple dollars.
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