The class action suit Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, running since 2023, alleges massive copyright violation by Facebook in developing its Llama LLM. [Case docket] Just hours before the discovery deadli…
Facebook is claiming its use of copyrighted works for training was fair use.
Yeah, teens downloading Metallica albums off Napster twenty years ago to listen in their parent’s basement was a serious crime, but Big Corp Inc. feeding books to the copyright erasing machine is somehow fair use. The gall.
You can let gemini to reproduce the lyrics from “if you wanna be my lover” verbatim if you ask about it. There’s not a court decision yet but anthropic is being sued for that reason (now a heavy bias forbids that)
Yeah, teens downloading Metallica albums off Napster twenty years ago to listen in their parent’s basement was a serious crime, but Big Corp Inc. feeding books to the copyright erasing machine is somehow fair use. The gall.
Erasing? It ain’t erasing anything.
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Functionally erasing the author’s copyright, is the issue.
Are there court decisions on that I’ve missed or something? As soon as it reproduces enough to prove it’s a derivative work, game over.
You can let gemini to reproduce the lyrics from “if you wanna be my lover” verbatim if you ask about it. There’s not a court decision yet but anthropic is being sued for that reason (now a heavy bias forbids that)
You can get people to do that
Yes, and? People are neural networks too.
Then I have no idea why would anyone think it’s erasing copyright. Or that it needs to be regulated. The laws are there, just apply them.