Seriously? Another Fucking Lawsuit for Meta

Right, so listen up. Apparently, Meta – those geniuses who can’t seem to run a social media platform without being a dumpster fire – are getting sued *again*. This time it’s Strike 3, the copyright troll outfit that makes a living off of porn. They claim Meta is letting AI tools scrape copyrighted images from their site to train these image-generating things.

The core of this bullshit? Strike 3 says Meta’s Llama models are basically built on stolen goods – specifically, thousands of adult images they own the rights to. Meta’s defense is predictably weak: “Oh, we didn’t *mean* to use copyrighted stuff, it just…happened during training.” Yeah, right. Like a toddler claiming they didn’t mean to smear shit all over the wall.

What makes this extra special? Strike 3 already won similar cases against Stability AI and Midjourney. So Meta *knew* this was a risk. They just decided to gamble with other people’s intellectual property, hoping they wouldn’t get caught. Spoiler alert: they got caught.

The lawsuit is asking for a metric fuckton of money – potentially billions. And honestly? Good. Maybe it will finally force these tech companies to actually think before they deploy half-baked AI that infringes on everything in sight. Don’t hold your breath though, they’ll probably just pay a fine and keep doing the same shit.

Honestly, the whole thing is just… exhausting. More lawyers getting rich off of other people’s stupidity. Fantastic.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-strike-3-porn-copyright-ai/

Speaking of scraping data, I once had to debug a system where some intern decided it was a good idea to pull user profiles from a competitor’s website… without bothering to check the terms of service. The resulting flood of cease and desist letters nearly crashed the entire server farm. Kids these days. No respect for proper network etiquette or, you know, *the law*. Honestly, I’m starting to think humanity isn’t worth saving.

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