Meta Claims Downloaded Porn at Middle of AI Lawsuit Was for ‘Private Use’

Additional, that alleged exercise can’t even reliably be linked to any Meta worker, Meta claims.

Strike 3 “doesn’t establish any of the people who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any had been employed by Meta or had any function in AI coaching at Meta, or specify whether or not (and which) content material allegedly downloaded was used to coach any specific Meta mannequin,” Meta wrote.

In the meantime, “tens of hundreds of workers,” in addition to “innumerable contractors, guests, and third events entry the web at Meta day-after-day,” Meta argued. So whereas it’s “doable a number of Meta workers” downloaded Strike 3’s content material over the previous seven years, “it’s simply as doable” {that a} “visitor, or freeloader,” or “contractor, or vendor, or restore particular person—or any mixture of such individuals—was accountable for that exercise,” Meta claims.

Different alleged exercise included a declare {that a} Meta contractor was directed to obtain grownup content material at his father’s home, however these downloads, too, “are plainly indicative of private consumption,” Meta argued. That contractor labored as an “automation engineer,” Meta famous, with no obvious foundation supplied for why he could be anticipated to supply AI coaching knowledge in that function. “No details plausibly” tie “Meta to these downloads,” Meta claims.

“The truth that the torrenting allegedly stopped when his contract with Meta ended says nothing about whether or not the alleged torrenting was carried out with Meta’s information or at its course,” Meta wrote.

Meta Slams AI Coaching Concept as “Nonsensical”

Presumably most baffling to Meta in Strike 3’s grievance, nevertheless, is the declare in regards to the “stealth community” of hidden IPs. This presents “one more conundrum” that Strike 3 “fails to handle,” Meta claims, writing, “why would Meta search to ‘conceal’ sure alleged downloads of Plaintiffs’ and third-party content material, however use simply traceable Meta company IP addresses for a lot of a whole bunch of others?”

“The plain reply is that it could not achieve this,” Meta claims, slamming Strike 3’s “whole AI coaching principle” as “nonsensical and unsupported.”