Link without the paywall
I’d feel better about this if meta actually produced anything of value and I was able to also violate their copyright, but they’re just fucking leeches bro
All I’m hearing is that pirating is A-OK as long as you claim it’s for model training
Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
Do you want a new constitution in the United States?
Could start with a guillotine for corporations and see how that goes.
But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.
Fallacious argument.
Something that can’t generate wine glass full to the brim without a band-aid fix is far from “transformative.” Even if it were:
More like obfuscated plagiarism.
Nope I’m literally a data programmer working in this field. Any sufficiently transformed data even coming from hard copyright is transformative work and currently LLMs meet this criteria and will continue to do so. Wanna bet?
Yeah, well, I could call my dick the Magnum Opus but that wouldn’t make it two feet long.
I’m torrenting movies in order to develop my own AI, your honor. I rest my case. 😎
Someone didn’t read the article
I actually did. The judge made up some BS “your arguments were bad” ruling. Activist judges. This is selective enforcement so that the plebs cannot legally pirate while corporate has free reign.
Again maybe you should give it another shot - piracy is still illegal but training is legal. How would “you torrenting movies” be alright here? You see how it makes no sense?
Meta literally torrented 82TB of books to train their AI. Why would torrenting movies to train AI be different?
Dude just read the article. Torrenting IS illegal even by Meta here. What’s up with people being willingly illiterate here?
The entire thing judge saying is that you can’t sue for AI training but come back with a different lawsuit hinting at piracy which was just set as precedent in another lawsuit last week.
