Meta was recently sued for copyright infringement for training its "AI" (LLM) Llama with copyrighted works that it had expressed interest in licensing, but chose not to. The Judge ruled in favor of trillion-dollar company Meta and against book authors, citing Fair Use. This is particularly interesting to us given the recent Bloomberg DMCA aggression against GamersNexus and our own experiences with Fair Use, so we dug into it to learn more.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 95 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Even more broadly, you’re seeing regulatory capture. Money gets whatever rules it wants.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Funnily enough I've been watching through Dark Matter and Alien: Earth and last night after watching an episode of each back to back realized that we're probably not far off from being directly ruled by corporations after all our governments fall, which is a central theme in each show.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

You get my kudos for mentioning Dark Matter. Damn the show was good while it lasted.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 1 month ago

I don’t think our governments are going to fall. I do think they are however extensions of corporations and over time are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from business.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How you enjoying After: Earth? I'm finding myself being less interested with every new episode.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same.

Foundation has been the opposite though. Each episode is getting better and better.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

foundation

It's based on the books though, isnt it? Is it as cringe?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven't read the books, but from what I understand, fans of the books generally don't care for the show because they think they changed too much. I think season 2 was a little slow but 1 and 3 have been great.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oh i might check it out, then

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll give it another try once I forget most of the book, otherwise it's hard not to compare. I loved the books so anything different is hard to digest.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't delved too deeply into the criticism so far all I know it could be baseless "internet complaints" like The Last of Us where people were upset that the girl playing the teenage character "wasn't attractive enough."

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Thats one word for it.

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thats just the first round of IP law vs AI Corpos. I'm really interested if this process will fix the broken copyright system or fix the AI Corpos - one of the two has to give.