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Meta Admits Use of 'Pirated' Book Dataset to Train AI

• sn0n 3y ago
  Not me looking at my large book collection and pondering..
• kristianp 3y ago
  > While the use of Books3 is not contested by Meta, the question remains whether the company was in the wrong when it did so. It seems that AI companies will have to pay publisher to use their content, after the courts have decided meta and openai were indeed wrong to use pirated works.
  • artninja1988 3y ago
    Well, hopefully courts will decide you can train on content freely
    • regularjack 3y ago
      I hope courts decide that rights owners have a say on how others use their content.
      • artninja1988 3y ago
        Courts have already decided that people can use others content in various transformative ways such as parody or commentary. Ai training should fall under this aswell, besides the odd memorisation. Really, if the output is not infringing then the model shouldn't be
        • wang_li 3y ago
          Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use. It sounds to me like Meta committed 195,000 acts of copyright violation for commercial purposes. What is $250,000 x 195,000 in criminal penalties?
          • EMIRELADERO 3y ago
            > Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use. Why wouldn't it? While the two instances (the initial acquisition of the copy and the actual use of that copy) are analyzed separately, they're still both ultimately copyright infringment.