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Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it (www.techspot.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Hey guys, I'm sure Meta's intentions with the fediverse are pure though! Really!

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

I mean, pure? No. But also not at all linked to this topic. They can get fediverse data whether or not they are federated.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who’s saying that?

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of people who are not against federating with Threads.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, who's saying they believe Meta's intentions are pure?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Prole believes those are the same thing.

Meta doesn't get any real data from federating Threads that they can't get right now by just running a web scraper over it. Most of the dire worries presented are either not something they could actually do (like forcing ads on other instances), are things individual users could just block the instance to avoid, or are things that could be resolved by just defederating them later if they seem to be going down that road.

The biggest realistic threat is probably an Eternal September 2.0 scenario, but that is going to happen if and when Lemmy becomes popular.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was going to say I knew all that and was poking to make it clear to others that literally no one is saying that but then you hit me with "Eternal September 2.0 scenario" haha.

I'll have to do a little searching on that one.

Edit: Ah, I had forgotten.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Edit: Ah, I had forgotten.

Wow, that sets the Wayback Machine to high.

Heh, no, not that one. This one.