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It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI
It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebo…
CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that slurs are okay on their platforms, added a pro-Trump UFC boss to their board, and made appearances in the aggrieved weirdo media world to make some convoluted case that we need more masculine energy in business, more resentment overall, and more fealty to Don Trump. The plaintiffs in this case are a number of writers and performers, including Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, Junot Diaz, Laura Lippman, Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and—jump scare!—Mike Huckabee. If you’re considering using AI, or are feeling pressure at work to do so, you can add “built on piracy” to the list of concerns about this tech, alongside its environmental impact, its human toll on underpaid and marginalized workers, and the simple fact that it is incapable of making anything good.
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