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Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it
(www.techspot.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Since when is there a legal requirement to publish the results of your research?
Sorry but that's just not how the world works. A big part of it is just plain practicality - how could you possibly find out who to pay? If I wanted to pay you one cent for the right to learn from things you've written on the fediverse, how would I even contact you? Or even find out who you are since I assume TWeaK isn't your real name. And how would I get the money to you?
Like it or not, a lot of value created doesn't get paid for. That's just the way the world works... and among other things, Fair Use codifies that fact into law.
Facebook isn't "stealing" that data. Third party websites voluntarily and put tracking pixels on their site with full awareness that visitors are going to be tracked. That's why they do it - the website operator is given access to all of the data facebook picks up. If you have a complaint, it should primarily be with the website operator especially if they don't ask the user for permission first (a lot of sites ask these days, I always say no personally. And run a browser extension that blocks it on sites that don't ask).
My answer to both your comments is that just because a lot of people get away with breaking the law and abusing peoples' rights doesn't mean it hasn't happened and they can't or shouldn't be held to account.
Tl;Dr I may pirate anything I want because I want many items and cannot figure out how to pay for every item individually
It's Amazon, I'm pretty sure they know who to pay for any book they want. They are all already on their platform, with payment information too. They don't even have to ask the author where to send the money, they already know. They could do it whenever they want, they have the funds to do it, billions of dollars laying around.
They've just decided they'd rather have it for free and keep the money.
But don't you dare think you could do the same, you should pay for copyrighted work, and you should buy it on one of Amazon's services that sell you access to say copyrighted work. Fucking peasant...