I really hope the publishers sue for all the damages they can. Unlike average people, Meta has lots of money to lose, and it couldn’t happen to a worse company.
If they get sued and it gets to the discovery phase, they might have to actually provide all training data used, and I’m almost certain there is a lot more stolen content in there. But sadly, it will probably not come to that, because they have money.
Although I’m almost rooting for Meta just so that copyright is weakened at all. The damage copyright has done to culture and science might even exceed Meta’s damage to society.
I really hope the publishers sue for all the damages they can. Unlike average people, Meta has lots of money to lose, and it couldn’t happen to a worse company.
81.7 terabytes of books
(‘more than’, but we’ll use this figure)
➗ divided by ➗
1 mebibyte per work
(the samples of digital novels i used here to estimate size per work were around 500kb each; i took that and doubled it)
✖️ multiplied by ✖️
$250,000 maximum fine (per infringement)
🟰 equals 🟰
$19.48 trillion maximum fine.
Corporate death penalty pls https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_dissolution They stepped on the toes of several companies with lots of lawyers.
I’d be fine with meta having to pay that 👍
A fine like that will last about as long as it takes for
DonvictFElon to sign an order making training AI fall under “fair use,” unfortunately.Or, just as likely, the individuals will be the ones found responsible rather than the corporation.
If they get sued and it gets to the discovery phase, they might have to actually provide all training data used, and I’m almost certain there is a lot more stolen content in there. But sadly, it will probably not come to that, because they have money.
It’s a win-win either way.
Although I’m almost rooting for Meta just so that copyright is weakened at all. The damage copyright has done to culture and science might even exceed Meta’s damage to society.