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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 13:45:58 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet against Meta in a copyright case raised by book authors alleging that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books. Mark is truly doing everything to avoid paying authors, remove fact-checkers, and lie. Imagine having billions in personal assets and running trillion-dollar corporations yet stealing books from poor writers/authors struggling to make ends meet. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

   • Kristaps Liepins (useravoiding@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 14:05:34 JST Kristaps Liepins

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     @nixCraft I really can imagine that. It's easy. What meta is doing is evil. Everybody knows that and no sane person would sell their work to promote evil. So Mark with all his treasures still has to continue stealing.

   • Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉 (kdekooter@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 16:22:38 JST Kees de Kooter 🍋🍉

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     @nixCraft He has been stealing and lying from day one. His company has been a criminal organization from the start.

   • Irene (irenebal@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 16:29:15 JST Irene

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     @nixCraft This is exactly the way how the rich have gotten rich in the past and still do. There is no other way. Exploiting everything, form minerals to the people who mine them, grab the profits and moan that wages are too high. There's nothing new under the sun. And we knew it al along.

     https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

   • シナモロール :kirby: (cuteprince@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 19:17:14 JST シナモロール :kirby:

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     @nixCraft would it be better or worse if he offered compensation in the form of "exposure" (one post on his own facebook page that links to a long, pastebin-style randomly ordered list of every author he's stolen from, obviously designed to make nobody read it)?

   • Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 (aknorals@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Feb-2025 02:58:51 JST Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴

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     @nixCraft I truly hate Copyright. It's an evil institution and is a global censorship regime. But Mark can eat shit. The current form of "AI" is just enclosure. Transference of Copyright from individuals to massive corporate cabals makes things even worse.