• brendansimms
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    8 days ago

    big companies can (currently) legally pirate books/movies/media from torrenting sites in order to train ai algos. Source: Meta Lawsuit

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      Indeed, the courts have shockingly given a pass to torrenting down unauthorized copies to the LLM companies, versus how they destroyed some lives of private individuals for similar behavior…

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          Fun fact, recently had an argument with someone defending the favorable tax situation for the ultra wealthy.

          Their argument was that billionaires did not have as much “real money” as middle class people so of course the middle class people should pay more in taxes…

          Relevant to nothing, but just thinking of favorable billionaire treatment right now triggers that thought…