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   Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:05:24 JST Fabio Manganiello

   As if scraping free content to train #AI models wasn’t enough (and #Meta already has plenty of free content created by billions of users on its platforms), as if refusing to pay a fair share to those content creators wasn’t enough, imagine working in a place where AI engineers send emails asking for clearance to use LibGen or BitTorrent in the office, in order to download GBs of pirated copyrighted work that can be fed to those models, and getting thumbs up from the CEO himself.

   The next judge who harshly punishes a teenager for downloading his favorite movie or TV series (or worse the next judge who states that scraping is a crime) deserves to be hit with a rubber hose under his feet. No single user of pirated content ought to be punished until the tech giants that in the past couple of years have played all kinds of dirty games with user content in order to get the best AI model are punished.

   https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:09:42 JST Rich Felker

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     @fabio Tangential, but Zuck's slide "The future is private" caught my eye.

     The meaning the audience is supposed to take away is a lie that Facebook respects privacy.

     But what it really means to Zuck is:

     "The future is privately-owned and privately-governed by private wealth. The state is privatized. Democracy is over."

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     mms :runbsd: :emacs: :c64: (mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:48:04 JST mms :runbsd: :emacs: :c64:

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     @fabio Maybe they will at least seed...

     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 likes this.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 01:48:41 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧

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     @fabio
     
     > imagine working in a place where AI engineers send emails asking for clearance to use LibGen or BitTorrent in the office, in order to download GBs of pirated copyrighted work that can be fed to those models, and getting thumbs up from the CEO himself.
     
     Good. They should be doing that. Everyone should be using bittorrent and building upon the millenia of written works that humanity left for this generation to stand on the shoulders of.