Comment on Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I hate that this is turning out to be an issue that the lawyers are just not doing their jobs in multiple court cases across the industry rather than solving the legal issue. I don’t know if it’s ignorance or corruption, but big corporations getting away with stealing from artists is not a new thing. Sad that it’s now come to a point where they can produce so much garbage that it drowns out the work of the original artists. Soon there will be so little content for the LLMs to steal from that everything will be derivative and we’ll end up in a new dark ages.
FatCrab@lemmy.one 1 day ago
Lawyers are doing their jobs–there is just no legal basis, given how a LLM is built, that the mere act of training a model or generating a latent space infringes copyright. That said, Anthropic literally just got shit on for pirating a shit ton of training data but not the training itself–because actually downloading copies of a work without license is and always has been infringement.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Meta got shit on for pirating books.
Anthropic got shit on for not pirating books.
FatCrab@lemmy.one 1 day ago
No? Anthropic’s judge literally continued the case over the basis they admitted to torrenting (i.e., pirating) a huge number of books for their training repo. Meta did not do that afaik