Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina, is withdrawing from the Kadrey v. Meta case over Meta training its Llama LLM on copyrighted material. He’s “fired Meta as a client” beca…
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In the meantime, the discovery documents we mentioned a few days ago have been unsealed. These documents are the smoking-gun evidence that Meta trained Llama on the LibGen book piracy site, that it did so with Zuckerberg’s direct permission, that it removed copyright notices from the training materials, and that it grabbed the materials via BitTorrent — which also made them available for uploading. [Attachments to doc 391, PDF]

    I wish I could say he was fucked, but we all know he isn’t.