Meta used hacked books to train her AI and emails prove it
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Meta is in turmoil following the publication of internal emails as part of a complaint filed by a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Richard Kadrey. Messages show employees who talk about “Torrenting” To download hacked content in order to train its AI models While the company has invested several billion dollars in its technology.
Previously, Meta admitted to use pirated datasets by speaking of “Fair Use” By admitting the download of “Libgen”a massive database of pirated books. But the emails show the extent of the fraud.
According to documents, Meta has downloaded and shared at least 81.7 data from pirate sources, including 35.7 teraoctets from the Z-Library and Libgen archives. The complainants complain of a huge “Torrenting” with large -scale hacked books.
In a message from April 2023, Meta's researcher, Nikolay Bashlykov, writes: “Doing torrent from a professional laptop is not correct” With an emoji smiling. In September 2023, his tone changed by speaking of a consultation with the company's legal team, admitting that the use of torrents was not “OK” From a legal point of view.
It is therefore very possible that Meta knew that her engineers were going through illegal methods of “Torrenting” To train IA models. And that Mark Zuckerberg in person was aware of the existence of Libgen.
To hide its activities, the company would have tried to hide the “Torrenting” and the “Seeding” Going through servers external to the Meta main network. In another message, an employee called Frank Zhang talks about “Furtive fashion”.
Meta recently filed a request for rejection of the complaint led by Sarah Silverman and the other authors. But the publication of emails that show the company's methods is likely to compromise its defense.
