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Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight | Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
Authors think that Meta's admitted torrenting of a pirated books data set used to train its AI models is evidence enough to win their copyright fight—which previously hinged on a court ruling that AI training on copyrighted works isn't fair use. Knowing that such activity has been deemed infringing for more than two decades, the authors alleged, Meta took a risk, seemingly hoping to evade detection while struggling to catch up in the AI race and needing speedier access to large chunks of data. To cover its tracks, the social media company allegedly deviated from usual practices and attempted to conceal the torrenting by using Amazon Web Services.
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