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LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (www.dropsitenews.com)
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Meta has scraped data from the most-trafficked domains on the internet —including news organizations, education platforms, niche forums, personal blogs, and even revenge porn sites—to train its artificial intelligence models, according to a leaked list obtained by Drop Site News.

By scraping data from roughly 6 million unique websites, including 100,000 of the top-ranked domains, Meta has generated millions of pages of content to use for Meta’s AI-training pipeline.

The sites that Meta scrapes consist of copyrighted content, pirated content, and adult videos, some of whose content is potentially illegally obtained or recorded, as well as news and original content from prominent outlets and content publishers.

They include mainstream businesses like Getty Images, Shopify, Shutterstock, but also extreme pornographic content, including websites advertising explicit sexual content and humiliation porn that exploits teenagers.

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[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If I scrape Meta's AI to develop my own, would that be fair game? I'm genuinely curious about the legality of this.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tehnically you would be breaking terms of service and license, but in a legal sense we don't know if that would be enforceable. Still hasn't been answered by courts.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

So far, OpenAI, anthropic et al hasn't sued anyone over it, but they have cut account access when it's discovered to be used for that purpose

It's how early versions of deepseek were trained iirc, it's called distillation