Ancestors

Written by blakestacey@awful.systems on 2025-01-10 at 00:42

Facebook "Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal"

https://awful.systems/post/3255778

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Written by jaschop@awful.systems on 2025-01-10 at 12:27

Did they seed at least?

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Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-01-10 at 13:29

it’s facebook, they probably issued a takedown request for all their logged peers

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Toot

Written by jaschop@awful.systems on 2025-01-10 at 21:04

The pivot-to-ai writeup is out, they did seed! I assume it’s documented then.

Multinational corporations can act ethically after all.

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Descendants

Written by froztbyte@awful.systems on 2025-01-11 at 06:11

Multinational corporations can act ethically after all.

I wouldn’t go that far

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Written by Laser@feddit.org on 2025-01-11 at 15:58

They can, they just choose deliberately not to most of the time.

In total honesty though, Meta had actually done some good things for Open Source. Sure, this is probably it of their own interest and neither outweighs nor make up for all the bad. But they can, and sometimes do.

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Written by David Gerard on 2025-01-11 at 15:04

It’s clear that they didn’t stop uploads of the torrents. It hasn’t been established in the documents we’ve seen so far that they actually had downloaders in turn. But they did clearly make the works available for upload.

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