SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work
SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work
The SoA is organising a day of protest against Meta following revelations of pirated books being used to train their large language models
On Thursday 20 March, The Atlantic broke the story of how Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems.
The revelations detailed by The Atlantic come against the background of the recent government consultation into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright and the #MakeItFair campaign which sees the UK creative industries fighting back against the proposed changes to copyright law, which would favour multinational tech companies, but irremediably damage the creative industries.
The right thing for meta to do is to implode and cause a complete crash on the stock exchange as it is erased from history.
So ordered.
And some people still complain that US tech companies keep getting petty fines in Europe.
We're the only ones trying to enforce even an anemic degree of antitrust, since the US just allows them to do whatever.
A small British trade union vs a 1.5 Trillion dollar American corporation?
LOL, good luck
Yet it still must be done
Anything is better than nothing!
A dbzer0 user agitating against Fair Use? You a narc or something?
It's the hypocrisy, not the law
I don't see how this fair use case is different from those in the past. There's a tech company defending. Organizations like the EFF or the Internet Archive issue supporting statements.
I don't see the hypocrisy. The content industry is suing tech companies now just like they have in the past, and just like they sue individuals now and in the past.
If I had to guess at the cause of the difference, I'd say that there is a lot of money being spent on social media PR. But perhaps it also is a result of the right-ward shift of society. I wonder how much that has to do with propaganda by the content industry.
Unfair Use
Piracy cant be illegal if laws arent real!
I was getting confused, not understanding why Structure of Arrays needed a day off action. Except perhaps to point out the benefits of locality of the same type of data for parallel processing, etc.
In my language SOA is STD. Which made me pause for a sec too on the title.