In one of the AI lawsuits faced by Meta, the company stands accused of distributing pirated books. The authors who filed the class-action lawsuit allege that Meta shared books from the shadow library LibGen with third parties via BitTorrent. Meta, however, says that it took precautions to prevent ‘seeding’ content. In addition, the company clarifies that there is nothing ‘independently illegal’ about torrenting.

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      2 days ago

      More like “Yes your honor I lit up and inhaled, just got a huge ass lungful, but I didn’t pass”

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      makes me think of the loopholes christian teenagers come up with to claim they’re totally not having premarital sex.