Facebook employees used Torrent to download 81.7TB of data to train its LLaMA: Court papers

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DEXYPTAGE - Publishers have started an arm of iron with AI giants to obtain a counterpart to the use of their corpus.

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Facebook employees used Torrent to download 81.7TB of data to train its LLaMA: Court papers

Meta, Facebook‘s parent company, faces a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition in training its The lawsuit claims that internal communications show Meta researchers expressing concerns about using pirated material as early as October 2022, with one senior AI researcher stating, “I don’t think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line here.” Another AI researcher says, “using pirated materi…

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News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Meta faces a collective lawsuit for allegedly downloading 81.7 TB of pirated books to train her artificial intelligence. The complaint accuses the company of copyright infringement and unfair competition, after it was discovered that they accessed illegal libraries such as Z-Library, LibGen and Anna’s Archive. This scandal casts doubt on the company’s practices i…

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The AI has come a long way in a few years and this huge progress is due to the huge investment in hardware and technology. The world’s largest companies have spent billions to make AI models increasingly accurate and advanced. Among these we have Google and Meta, the latter being the one previously known as Facebook led by Mark Zuckerberg. A few years ago Meta has been involved in AI with Llama Open Source and other models. Meta is now facing a …

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Meta Allegedly Trained A.I. On a Hundred Terabytes of Pirated Books – Pixel Envy

Even though a 2023 class action suit filed by authors against Meta has been shaky so far, some of the details in what is left of the suit are stunning. Apparently, Meta downloaded a hundred terabytes of pirated books, according to documents recently unsealed. Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica: Supposedly, Meta tried to conceal the seeding by not using Facebook servers while downloading the dataset to “avoid” the “risk” of anyone “tracing back the s…

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Meta accused of pirating 82 terabytes of books from 'shadow libraries' to train AI

Leaked court documents reveal Meta has been accused of downloading 82 terabytes of data from illegal sources to train its artificial intelligence.