Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

And Zuckerberg personally approved the piracy, according to these documents.Free LoadersNewly unredacted court documents allege that Meta, formerly Facebook, knowingly used pirated books obtained from the online archive Library Genesis to train its AI models, Wired reports. Submitted in an ongoing lawsuit filed against the platform by a group of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman, the documents were finally released in full after a judge shot down Meta’s attempts to keep portions of them sealed.The judge argued, per Wired, that Meta fought for the redactions merely to “avoid negative…

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