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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books, and others

And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

This “seems unreasonably expensive,” wrote one research scientist on an internal company chat, in reference to one potential deal, according to court records. A Llama-team senior manager added that this would also be an “incredibly slow” process: “They take like 4+ weeks to deliver data.” In a message found in another legal filing, a director of engineering noted another downside to this approach: “The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy,” a reference to a possible legal defense for using copyrighted books to train AI. It would appear that Mark Zuckerberg himself, the third richest person in the world, worth over 200 billion dollars, signed off on this mass theft of intellectual property.

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