Court orders Meta to name executives who approved AI training torrenting
Original title: Meta ordered to name execs who approved torrenting for AI training
The order also covers who approved downloading shadow libraries for Llama 1 and 2 and what happened to unused pirated works.
Hixon rejected Meta's objections and ordered it to identify people who made, authorized, or approved decisions to obtain or download shadow libraries for AI training. Meta told the court that Entrepreneur Media was speculating, that early Llama 1 and 2 dataset acquisition lacked formal leadership decisions, and that torrenting approvals were collaborative. Hixon said the request was not limited to formal decisions or a single decision maker. Meta must also answer what happened to pirated works not used for training. Neither side immediately commented.
Unconfirmed: Meta says there is no basis to suspect someone approved a seeding decision; the order does not identify who did.
- Meta offered names without roles, dates, or whether each person approved the decision.
- Hixon said that narrower disclosure would not be appropriate.
- Meta said structured dataset review came only after early Llama training.
- The dispute includes whether anyone approved a seeding activity.
- Organizations
- MetaEntrepreneur Media
From the original article
1 min read at arstechnica.com
Going further, Meta accused Entrepreneur Media of “speculation,” claiming there is “no basis” for suspecting that “someone at Meta must have ‘approved’ a ‘decision’ to perform a seeding activity that specific mitigations were deployed to avoid.”
By Ashley Belanger · arstechnica.com
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