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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal (www.wired.com)
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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 87 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The notorious piracy database in question is Library Genesis.

Cached article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250110075821/https://www.wired.com/story/new-documents-unredacted-meta-copyright-ai-lawsuit/

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Earlier reports suggested they trained it on books from Bibliotik.

What changed?

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably just both honestly.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

In for a penny and for a pound.

[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The llama-1 paper acknowledged the use of the books dataset, libgen isn't mentioned in any of the papers so this is new info.