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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 76 points 2 days ago (8 children)

wish I could get paid to torrent porn.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I suspect that if employees at Meta who are tasked with hoovering up training data from everywhere they can find are just watching porn, it probably won't go over well on their annual reviews.

I would give good odds that the human at Meta most-closely responsible for the BitTorrent download at issue probably has never even seen this particular torrent by name or URL. The scope of data involved in training is too large for direct human involvement. They probably did something along the lines of writing a bot in Python or similar to spider websites and feed every torrent it could find into a torrent downloader. That downloader's output then gets dumped into some massive internal collection of data that gets used by some other team as part of the training process. The humans just create tools and set them in motion, never actually see the overwhelming majority of the data that they're processing.

[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes thank you, it was a joke. Obviously I am aware nobody is being paid to watch porn.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I once was let go from a job in favor of someone who was later found to be spending most of their shifts watching porn. I don't know if they suffered consequences for that - they were offshore and had no on site supervision.

To be fair, that person was more qualified than I was at the time, but I didn't watch porn on the job, so ...

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