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Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims (techcrunch.com)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

According to the latest filing, Meta also revealed during depositions that it torrented LibGen, a move that gave some Meta research engineers pause. Torrenting, a way of distributing files across the web, requires that torrenters simultaneously “seed,” or upload, the files they’re trying to obtain.

Plaintiffs’ counsel alleges that Meta effectively engaged in another form of copyright infringement by torrenting LibGen and thus helping to spread its contents. Meta also tried to conceal its activities, counsel alleges, by minimizing the number of files it uploaded.

So if books3 was all off Bibliotik... is the mysterious books2 that's theorized to be all of libgen what they torrented?? I had heard of OpenAI using books2, but no others, and no firm info on it. So were they torrenting individual books, a thing that's probably relatively simple to automate, or did they find a torrent of books2? Were they just throttling upload on a public torrent/torrents?