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Court documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel rig (lemmy.world)
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Sources:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/court-documents-show-not-only-did-meta-torrent-terabytes-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-models-employees-wouldnt-stop-emailing-each-other-about-it-torrenting-from-a-corporate-laptop-doesnt-feel-right/

https://piracymonitor.org/chat-gpt-trained-using-pirated-e-books/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/21/aaron-swartz-indicted-hacking-charges

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure the executives that made the decisions to do all of this will be jailed, and prosecuted in court...