It’s not Meta vs us, but opensource vs Google and Openai.

I never said it’s Meta vs us. It’s Meta vs (in this particular case) the book publishing industry. You can’t reduce all of modern tech and AI economy to open source vs closed source.

They are being sued for copyright infringement when it’s clearly highly transformative

They downloaded the entire Libgen and more. Going by the traditional explanations of piracy, that’s like stealing several hundred bookstores worth of books all at once, and then claiming it’s alright because your own writing is not plagiarised from any of the books you’ve stolen. (Piracy is not the same as actual stealing of course, but countless people have been being legally bullied and ruined with that logic.) The brainfucking conclusion of Facebook’s

The rules are fine as is

Actually they’re not. Copyright law is insane