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And yet again from Corporate America: "Rules for thee but not for me!"
Corporate America maybe. Meta is an international company and there are also a lot of international publishing companies.
I could definitely see this leading to a lawsuit in other parts of the world. This is unquestionably a violation of the Berne Convention.
The exception is when corporations mess with other corporations have the means to sue them into the ground.
I really hope the publishers sue for all the damages they can. Unlike average people, Meta has lots of money to lose, and it couldn't happen to a worse company.
81.7 terabytes of books
('more than', but we'll use this figure)
➗ divided by ➗
1 mebibyte per work
(the samples of digital novels i used here to estimate size per work were around 500kb each; i took that and doubled it)
✖️ multiplied by ✖️
$250,000 maximum fine (per infringement)
🟰 equals 🟰
$19.48 trillion maximum fine.
Corporate death penalty pls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution They stepped on the toes of several companies with lots of lawyers.
Any of those books published by Nintendo, per chance?
Nintendo is going to have to send out more than just Luigi. There's a lot of plumbing to be done!
I really don't understand how LLM models aren't considered derivative works of the material they were created from under copyright law.
Can I do this on my own computer? I’m training an AI I swear.
Believe it or not, straight to jail
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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