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How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value"
- lenerdenator 1y agoSimple: they didn't want to pay for it, and it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
- yapyap 1y agoMeta has the money to burn, 1. it’s easier to fight all this in court after having done it rather than to ask for permission from all the publishers beforehand. 2. sadly oftentimes the fines are minuscule when big tech does wrong. 3. CEOs in big tech don’t have or listen to morality, they have “sold their soul” so to say a long time ago
- bslanej 1y agoPiracy is very good and morally right except when it’s someone I don’t like doing it.
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y agoThere is a huge gap between someone pirating a book and one of the richest corporations on the planet pirating seven million books to train their for-profit stuff on.
- pitaj 1y agoI, for one, don't accept copyright as correct law. Under that principle, there is no difference.
- chimpanzee 1y agoThe difference is in the real consequences of the action. Which exist regardless of the abstract notions that precede it and which exist regardless of whether anyone accepts those notions.
- AngryData 1y agoThere is when some people get punished for it and others do not.
- bslanej 1y agoI agree, but I don’t see how facebook getting punished gets us any closer to a good situation.
- 52-6F-62 1y agoBecause it sets an example: Pay the appropriate fee to the creators for their hard work, and ask permission before taking something that isn’t yours. They didn’t even attempt to deal in good faith.
- pitaj 1y agoWould you apply the same logic to immigration and marijuana possession?
- AngryData 1y agoYes, unequal enforcement of the law is inherently unjust and ripe for abuse. That doesn't mean the law shouldn't be changed, but a legal system that arbitrarily picks and chooses when it enforces the law is corrupt and has a built in method to persecute and target select people and groups. It undermines the very principle of Rule of Law and allows unjust laws to remain on the books ready to be selectively enforced.
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- moralestapia 1y agoBy their fruits you shall know them ... Yann LeCun endlessly talks about what's good, what's bad, about how he is this and that, bla bla bla bla bla. Then gives stuff like this a green light. He does get a fat paycheck out of it, though. Trashy.
- tomaskafka 1y agoWell, if they have no value, no one is forcing them to use them.
- cedws 1y agoIt’s interesting the stuff that Meta gets away with under Zuckerberg’s direction, where other CEOs would be under intense scrutiny or already behind bars.