AI companies demand huge amounts of data to train their programs. Peer inside LibGen, a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others:
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My publisher sent them a DMCA notice last month when we discovered some of my books there. Not that we expect them to listen or anything because Zuckerberg and Meta think they can do whatever the hell they want whenever they want.
apr 12, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 0 • view
"LibGen contains errors." 😩 Sloppy AI
apr 12, 2025, 11:44 am • 1 0 • view
They've been stealing your personal data right from the beginning, so what'd you expect?
apr 12, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
10 of my books came up in the search.
apr 12, 2025, 5:24 am • 3 0 • view
AI has an achilles heel. The sooner the human population comes to this realization the safer civilization will be now & for the forture.
apr 12, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
So it has an education, vs most USians …
apr 12, 2025, 5:29 am • 1 0 • view
Wait, the Secretary of Education changed the name to A.1. Use it or face deportation. #A1
apr 12, 2025, 6:16 am • 1 0 • view
Wait… meta used pirated sources? How is that legal?
apr 12, 2025, 5:17 am • 2 0 • view
It's not. But they did anyways.
apr 12, 2025, 5:21 am • 3 0 • view
Pirated = Stolen
apr 12, 2025, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
This reminds me of the advent of Uber. They just did what they did and dared anybody to do something about it, whether it was cities or taxi associations or whatever. That's pretty much the tech playbook - ask forgiveness (possibly) but not permission.
apr 12, 2025, 5:17 am • 7 0 • view
apr 12, 2025, 6:00 am • 5 0 • view
They stole Elizabeth Jolley’s books, an author now deceased. Her estate needs to know 🇦🇺
apr 12, 2025, 5:54 am • 2 0 • view
Otherwise known as theft.
apr 12, 2025, 5:22 am • 4 0 • view
📌
apr 12, 2025, 5:56 am • 1 0 • view
It's funny how you go to prison in some countries for downloading copyright material as a privat person. And when big corpos do it, nothing happens.
apr 12, 2025, 7:44 am • 0 0 • view
Pure theft. They’d be screaming bloody murder if anyone stole their IP, but they’ll steal others IP without blinking an eye.
apr 12, 2025, 5:49 am • 5 0 • view