”Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

They torrent a gillion books, but I torrent one Uzbek porno and it’s all “how dare you touch the sacred copyright” this and “final warning” that.

!ping AI&TECH&LAW

I would love some legal takes on whether this amounts to a criminal conspiracy. They seemingly committed a crime, knew it was a crime, and took steps to cover up the crime..

I have been long on the side of it being ethical to train AI on publically available datasets. The argument that this is exactly how humans work resonates with me. I found the arguments around web crawlers and robots.txt really interesting. This, however, seems ludicous. Also interested in what people closer to AI then I am think of AI being trained on pirated material.