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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues (torrentfreak.com)

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To help train AI models, Meta and other tech companies have downloaded and shared pirated books via BitTorrent from Anna's Archive and other shadow libraries. In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use. The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case.

This is so fucked. It's literally legal for an AI to read pirated books to learn, but humans are not allowed to do this. AIs have more rights than we do already.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 day ago

I’m so tired of lawyer snakes.