Link without the paywall
I’d feel better about this if meta actually produced anything of value and I was able to also violate their copyright, but they’re just fucking leeches bro
All I’m hearing is that pirating is A-OK as long as you claim it’s for model training
The ruling explicitly does not allow pirating. It only lets you run ML training on legally acquired media.
They still haven’t ruled on copyright infringement from pirating the media used to train, and they haven’t ruled on copyright status of outputs (what it takes to be considered transformative).
This is judge Alsup, same guy who ruled in Oracle vs Google
Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
I just put a thin blue line sticker on my case and full send that bitch.
American law has become a literal fucking joke (IAAL). I could’ve guessed the could get the outcome of this case without any facts: the huge corporation wins over authors. American law is no longer capable of holding major corporations to account, so we need a new legal system—one that’s actually functional.
Do you want a new constitution in the United States?
Could start with a guillotine for corporations and see how that goes.
But the actual process of an AI system distilling from thousands of written works to be able to produce its own passages of text qualified as “fair use” under U.S. copyright law because it was “quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote.
Thats the actual argument and the judge is right here. LLMs are transformative in every sense of the word. The technology is even called “transformers”.
Yeah, well, I could call my dick the Magnum Opus but that wouldn’t make it two feet long.
I’m torrenting movies in order to develop my own AI, your honor. I rest my case. 😎
The judge explicitly did not allow piracy here. Only legally acquired media can be used for training.
Someone didn’t read the article
I actually did. The judge made up some BS “your arguments were bad” ruling. Activist judges. This is selective enforcement so that the plebs cannot legally pirate while corporate has free reign.
Again maybe you should give it another shot - piracy is still illegal but training is legal. How would “you torrenting movies” be alright here? You see how it makes no sense?
