| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? 16:58 - Apr 3 with 1302 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
It was recently revealed by The Atlantic that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has used LibGen, a vast database of pirated material, to train its AI models.
So meta have sold our images to LibGen. Did you or I authorise third party uploading of our photos to meta sites so they could sell it on?...definitely not. I have never uploaded my photo archive to unsocial media but it's all there.
https://www.change.org/p/protect-authors-livelihoods-from-the-unlicensed-use-of-
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:25 - Apr 3 with 1180 views | Radlett_blue |
I might, because Meta made my son's fiancee redundant recently. |  |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:41 - Apr 3 with 1147 views | Plums |
Signed. The work of my sister and her husband who are both academics are on there - including content she's now unable to access herself.
This is nothing short of theft. |  |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:44 - Apr 3 with 1137 views | mutters |
I am sure Facebook has some usage rights over the photos etc that you upload to their platforms. Effectively you still own it but by uploads you've given them rights to use it in certain circumstances.
Not sure if training AI is one of them though |  |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:49 - Apr 3 with 1119 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:44 - Apr 3 by mutters |
I am sure Facebook has some usage rights over the photos etc that you upload to their platforms. Effectively you still own it but by uploads you've given them rights to use it in certain circumstances.
Not sure if training AI is one of them though |
The petition isn't about what you upload to Facebook. It's about the stolen work that Meta are selling to LibGen and using to train its AI. [Post edited 3 Apr 17:51]
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:57 - Apr 3 with 1087 views | mutters |
| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:49 - Apr 3 by Cheltenham_Blue |
The petition isn't about what you upload to Facebook. It's about the stolen work that Meta are selling to LibGen and using to train its AI. [Post edited 3 Apr 17:51]
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Just trying to understand the issue here.
You say Meta have used libgen to train their AI, which if it contains illegal images (from what I've read books are a big thing). That I get
Then you said about Meta selling our images to libgen, which you said that this isn't about what we upload to Facebook? isn't that where the get our images from? | |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 19:10 - Apr 3 with 1001 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 17:57 - Apr 3 by mutters |
Just trying to understand the issue here.
You say Meta have used libgen to train their AI, which if it contains illegal images (from what I've read books are a big thing). That I get
Then you said about Meta selling our images to libgen, which you said that this isn't about what we upload to Facebook? isn't that where the get our images from? |
No. The pirated information is in the LibGen database, which has material from everywhere. It’s explained in the letter in the link the OP posted.
“Yet the evidence reported in The Atlantic article supports the allegation that, instead, decisions were taken at the very highest level at Meta, to download and use the Library Genesis database (“the Lib Gen database”), which is one of the largest pirated collections of books available globally, containing over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers.” [Post edited 3 Apr 19:22]
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 23:21 - Apr 3 with 829 views | WeWereZombies |
Signed and shared |  |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 00:24 - Apr 4 with 745 views | mutters |
| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 19:10 - Apr 3 by Swansea_Blue |
No. The pirated information is in the LibGen database, which has material from everywhere. It’s explained in the letter in the link the OP posted.
“Yet the evidence reported in The Atlantic article supports the allegation that, instead, decisions were taken at the very highest level at Meta, to download and use the Library Genesis database (“the Lib Gen database”), which is one of the largest pirated collections of books available globally, containing over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers.” [Post edited 3 Apr 19:22]
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So Meta haven't sold our images then as the OP suggested? Just utilised libgen to train it's AI | |
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| Can I trouble people to sign this petition? on 07:49 - Apr 11 with 379 views | WeWereZombies |
Did anyone else get a WhatsApp message from Meta shortly after signing this petition ? | |
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