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News Summary: Anthropic Faces High-Stakes Lawsuit, Australia Rules Against Apple, and Wattpad Reflects on Radish Demise

We end the week with a round-up of a few stories that have caught my eye, each of which builds upon things that have been rumbling on for some time. We start with an update on what…
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#Anthropiclawsuit #Appleappstoreruling #copyrightinfringement #indieauthorinsights #Radishclosure
@indieauthors

A new lawsuit alleges Meta pirated nearly 2,400 adult videos since at least 2018 and seeded them on BitTorrent to accelerate other data downloads for AI training. The complaint claims this behavior isn’t incidental, it was deliberate leveraging of tit‑for‑tat to harvest large datasets. Meta previously used pirated books to train its Llama model—now adult content is part of the mix and could have exposed minors. This could reshape how we think about data sourcing in AI: it’s not only legal exposure but serious ethics around content type and audience. Licensing concerns, age gates, and fair use. This lawsuit touches all of it. Meta denies the accusations, but the ball is in court now.

TL;DR
⚠️ Meta accused of willfully pirating and seeding 2,396 adult videos
🧠 Seeding strategy allegedly used to speed download of terabytes of data
🔐 Content may have been shared with minors without age verification
📉 Could strengthen plaintiffs’ broader copyright challenges

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
#Meta #AITraining #CopyrightInfringement #ResponsibleAI #porn

Ars Technica · Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit saysBy Ashley Belanger

A California federal judge has ruled that three #US #authors suing #Anthropic for #copyrightinfringement can represent writers nationwide in a #classaction lawsuit, whose #books the #AI startup allegedly pirated to train its #Claude #chatbot.
Judge Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as 7 million books from the pirate websites, which could make it liable for billions of dollars in damages if the authors' case is successful.
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Received an email by the #NANOG mailing list in which they raise a pretty concerning thing: Apparently, #Spain started to intercept or nullroute certain IP addresses of #CDN providers. The intent is to fight #piracy during #football matches.

Do the people who pass the list of IP addresses even understand the significance of blocking a bunch of #CDN networks of various providers? Seriously?! It #censors access to tens of thousands of legitimate #websites which is blatantly accepted as a #collateral to help out some shady sports association in their #copyright?

How much shadier can a decision be? Since this is a thing, maybe they can think about taking down entire regions in Spain the next football match?

The amount of collateral damage in the name of copyright is ridiculous. The #EuropeanUnion really has to step-up their game in addressing those concerning developments. I read about multiple such blatant decisions so far. Eyeing at you, #Quad9 and #Sony...

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@EUCommission No. Please don’t. Don’t buy in to the hype. The models are built using stolen intellectual property. It’s not “training”, it’s using unauthorized property of others as unpaid raw materials - it’s theft.

Buy books. Support original content creators. Protect copyright, the rule of law, and democracy. Add this to your library -

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#MustRead (or listen, as you prefer) #Democracy
#AI #CopyrightInfringement

Apple Books‎The Tech Coup : How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley‎Non-Fiction · 2024

The Atlantic created a tool so you can find if any of your work was pirated for training #Meta's AI. You can use the tool at the link below without having to create an account. 9 of my articles were used! No royalties!
"Search #LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train #AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration."
#TheAtlantic
#copyright #CopyrightInfringement #PiratedContent @mgeist
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The Atlantic · Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIBy Alex Reisner