I hear you, but hear me out… They’re creating products from the consumed torrents, which absolutely contained copyrighted materials. I’m not trying to capitalize my torrents. Although, I did use cracked photoshop back in high school for a $200 job.

And to be completely honest with you, I don’t really care about copyright infringement so much, after it’s become a tool for organizations like Disney or whoever to abuse as they please. But the main body of work torrented here would be corpus’ of text, music, … a lot of stuff that independent producers created and rely on for income.

I found this particular video quite insightful on the impact within the music industry: youtu.be/QVXfcIb3OKo

To be fair to Meta, I’d have to say that I don’t really know what models they’re training via that data and how they’re using the resulting products. This is Meta, though, a pioneer and industry leader in the process of surveillance capitalism. I don’t particularly have high expectations for them.