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people_are_cute , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

It'd be better if they went after literally every other AI corp than Meta in this case. Meta is the only one that's ironically releasing open-source models and leading the way for open-source LLMs. I don't want Meta to stop doing this.

sunzu , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

Ain't it great!!!

The law protects mega corps but not peasants.

Flatworm7591 OP Mod ,

Aye exactly mate, down with the mega corps!

onlinepersona ,

In I2P we trust 🙏 Can't sue what you can't find.

Anti Commercial-AI license

sunzu ,

wtf is i2p

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

It's like Tor, but different.

sunzu ,

go on...

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

Well it wasn't made by the US Navy, it doesn't allow for clearnet traffic, it allows torrenting over the protocol. I'm sure there are other differences too.

gwen ,

tor was made by the us navy???

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

Originally, yes. It was made to help people in countries with censorship get around censorship.

Nowadays it's maintained by the Tor Project.

Andromxda ,
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HouseWolf ,

Rules for thee but not for me

archchan , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
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So the evil mega corp gets a free pass while the Internet Archive regularly has to fight for open access to knowledge. Fuck that and fuck Meta.

derpgon ,

Welcome to Capitalism, please leave your cash by the front desk, and remembered, no refunds!

MonkderDritte , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

Of course, why would you pay for pirated media?

foremanguy92_ , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

Meta train open llms, only big techs can train AI... Go pursuit OpenAI or Google and leave Meta (I'm really not a fan of Meta but their "open" AIs are great examples of good works) do their work!

Facebones , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it

Duh

YourPrivatHater , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
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Who doesn't?

AGuyAcrossTheInternet , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version

I'm happy I have y'all because I can satisfy my curiosity sparked by clickbait titles without ever giving those a click.

Seriously, the digest alone looks like the full thing is an absolute non-article.

tutus , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version

I may have missed something.

Firefox 127 has introduced privacy tweaks that are causing user dissatisfaction, particularly due to changes like the separation of normal and private windows on the taskbar and the closing of private tabs when the main instance closes on iOS.

This sounds like it would be the expected behaviour?

  • Despite user complaints, the update includes new privacy and security enhancements such as upgrading subresources from HTTP to HTTPS and masking CPU architecture to reduce fingerprinting.

This sounds like a good thing?

  • Mozilla plans to address user feedback by reintroducing the "browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled" preference as an opt-in and adding more intuitive privacy settings in future updates.

This sounds like a good thing?

orclev , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version

More like Firefox users are surprised to find out some journalist thinks they're unhappy with "privacy tweaks" they hadn't even noticed.

Ephera , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version

What is this article talking about? That's a UX change. It has nothing to do with privacy or Mozilla's commitment to privacy.

jabathekek ,
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TxzK ,
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"but we gotta bait for clicks"

Voyajer , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version
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We are?

jabathekek ,
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but several users noticed and took to online forums to complain.

There's at least 7 users that are, therefore all 180,000,000 users are unhappy. It's extremely simple logic.

jeffw , to Technology in Firefox users are unhappy with privacy tweaks in the browser's latest version
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Speak for yourself

Shdwdrgn , to Technology in Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses

All it takes is one big company like Amazon changing their services to IPv6-only and most of the world would be converted over in a month or two... but now I guess we know the reason WHY Amazon doesn't push such a policy.

pirrrrrrrr ,

A massive swathe of current gen devices don't even support it.

It won't be a month.

Microsoft announce changes much smaller than that 4 years out and still have to give extensions.

Shdwdrgn ,

Seriously? How can any device call themselves current gen and not support something as basic as this? That's just embarrassing.

WheatleyInc , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

You typically don't get "ownership rights" when you purchase a game on Steam. You'll typically be purchasing a licence to play the game, which could be taken away at any point. Some Steam games don't include DRM after installation, and you'll truly own those games after downloading them. (you can search for a game here, and find the DRM used) I'd recommend avoiding purchasing games on Steam whenever DRM is included if you want to own the game you'd buy, there are a lot of online stores that sell games without DRM.

tfowinder ,

Can same game be with DRM on steam and without DRM on other platform.

reddthat ,
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Yes. In those cases the steam DRM is usually for achievements, friend joining, and checking that it was run via steam.

There are plenty of "steam emulators" or even patchers that remove the steam DRM.

So as long as you have the files applications such as SteamEMU and Steamless are godsends in ensuring that when you "buy" a game you will still be able to play it.

Deello ,

Yes, happens all the time on gog. They don't have the same library of games but there is an overlap.

Jako301 ,

If the game is DRM free on GOG it usually only has the Steamworks DRM on steam. That one is so easy to remove that you might aswell call it DRM free since its only use is to make publishers think their game is protected.

geissi ,

You typically don’t get “ownership rights” when you purchase a game on Steam. You’ll typically be purchasing a licence to play the game, which could be taken away at any point.

That is certainly what Valve thinks and writes in their TOS but if their store has a big button that says "BUY HALO" then courts may very well decide that you actually bought Halo.
And many countries have a strict legal definition of what buying means that cannot be overruled by some company's TOS.

WheatleyInc ,

That's why the button says "purchase" instead of "buy" it's been a bit since I used Steam, so I had to check to be sure. I think there's a legal loophole there, but I'm not great with English.

geissi ,

That’s why the button says “purchase” instead of “buy”

First off, they're synonyms
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purchase#synonyms

Now, I'm certainly no expert on the US legal system. It certainly seems silly if you could circumvent entire laws just by using synonyms but what do I know.
However I have been talking about other countries where that is not the case and where the language is not English.
So It really doesn't matter whether it say "buy" or "purchase" in English when it's "kaufen" in German or "acheter" in French.

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