Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

Why do you think Facebook exists?

Omegle gooner? I’d believe it.

"....Zetabaytes? no. it was yottabytes"

rookie numbers for a bunch of 20 something programmers tbh

Dignity doesn't matter if it wins the case.

Welcome to Zucc's Fucc & Succ

They didn't claim it was respectable, they claimed it made them not liable? Where'd you get this idea?

I think it's more respectable to provide unfiltered internet than it is to profit off someone else's work without paying them.

I would not be surprised if Meta advertised such a thing to prospective employees as a legitimate benefit of the job. A built-in VR goon cave with 30 TB of material available. Limit 1 hour per person, bookings required 6 months in advance. Sessions subject to monitoring for security and training purposes. May contain trace amounts of Zuck.

I can only imagine the smell of dried cum and server stacks in an enclosed space

The Matagoon cave sounds like something from the Unix Surrealism universe.

Mandatory gooning during the dailies at meta.

You're joking but it was 2400 movies over 7 years downloaded individually and not in bulk like they blatantly did with books. Apparently over 60% of adults admit to have viewed porn at work so yeah... someone should probably check on the engineers in the goon cave.

Steal 1 movie, you're a murderer, steal 1million, you're a conquerer, steal 'em all? You're a goooooooood~

this comment is oc, DO NOT steal

Well in this case they are trying to do something... This whole "personal use" thing is Meta's response to a copyright claim against them.

It's not a personal Jellyfin server, it's training material for a possible future AGI. It's going to know a lot about terrible horror movies.

It's kinda weird how spwsific you have to be with certain models to not make them vwry very young looking people

It's better to say child sex abuse material (csam), the term "child porn" both legitimizes the conent, and infers children could ever be active and consenting participants

sexualised content involving children is abuse and should be labled as so

"define 'sex'. no, wait... define 'life'."

Gen AI porn and shitposts are the only 2 decent use cases I've seen of gen AI.

You can't make half of those without training it on porn.

An article I read when this came up a couple of months ago said that basically porn was the best way to show AI unclothed human movement. Watching clothed humans move, you can get the basics but can’t see how the muscles are working. If you show it a Hollywood movie, they might see occasional shirtless scenes or artfully lit and blocked out sex scenes. Porn has the greatest amount of naked people moving their bodies.

Video generation, copyright matching, CSAM detection, those are just the first few that pop into my head.

probably for the AI to learn how to detect NSFW content???

Its the best datasets for human anatomy.

Zuck, you dirty wanker.

I think they already came

I completely disagree with your take here.

The idea that we shouldn't have services with end to end encryption because "think of the children" is an absurd take to have.

I think you're being upvoted because its anti Zuckerberg, but seriously people, think about the long term consequences of not being able to chat without being spied on.

Which is frustrating as every single time the government wanted to expand surveillance on regular citizens, preventing this is always touted as the justification. Now we have all the surveillance and the monopolies are like 'Nah, exploitation is profitable'.