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[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well, someone at facebook needs to come collect their jerk-off trophy.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

Zuck, you dirty wanker.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I think they already came

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 189 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Zuck's just an omega-level gooner, swearsies!

[–] markz@suppo.fi 90 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do you think Facebook exists?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Basically its inception tbh

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[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Omegle gooner? I’d believe it.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 95 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"So just to get this straight, you're saying you have downloaded 152 .... zettabytes .... of porn for your own personal use?"

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"....Zetabaytes? no. it was yottabytes"

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Thats BabyGroku-bytes

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

rookie numbers for a bunch of 20 something programmers tbh

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 91 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Where did they get the idea that that's a more respectable response?

EDIT: Doesn't/shouldn't work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 91 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dignity doesn't matter if it wins the case.

Welcome to Zucc's Fucc & Succ

[–] Tm12@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago

Zuck’s Fuck and Suck sounds like his product’s effects on society.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They didn't claim it was respectable, they claimed it made them not liable? Where'd you get this idea?

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

I think it's more respectable to provide unfiltered internet than it is to profit off someone else's work without paying them.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 71 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Did anyone check on the Meta engineers in the goon cave?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You're joking but it was 2400 movies over 7 years downloaded individually and not in bulk like they blatantly did with books. Apparently over 60% of adults admit to have viewed porn at work so yeah... someone should probably check on the engineers in the goon cave.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I would not be surprised if Meta advertised such a thing to prospective employees as a legitimate benefit of the job. A built-in VR goon cave with 30 TB of material available. Limit 1 hour per person, bookings required 6 months in advance. Sessions subject to monitoring for security and training purposes. May contain trace amounts of Zuck.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wouldn’t need any material. Hooks up to your fb and you can pick which of your pals to hook up to the milking table.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

Then you should be less credulous. What is told to prospective employees is effectively public information.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I can only imagine the smell of dried cum and server stacks in an enclosed space

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Nah, Zuck doesn't let a drop go to waste.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

Mandatory gooning during the dailies at meta.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Torrent the Dark Knight to watch at home along and the media companies will sue you for infinity billion dollars. Openly torrent every movie known to man to train an AI and the media companies don't do shit.

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[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

"hey steve, did you download a shitton of porn while on the company network?"
"Uuuhhhhh, it's for ai training"

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 48 points 1 week ago

Humanity is fucked letting these companies exist.

[–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 32 points 1 week ago

I can only assume the MPAA will funnel vast sums of money into helping prosecute these thieves? Any minute now right?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 week ago

An even more “glaring” defect, Meta argued, is that Meta’s terms prohibit generating adult content, “contradicting the premise that such materials might even be useful for Meta’s AI training.”

Oh yes, this is true because meta, or any other company for that matter, has never ever in the history of ever changed its terms of service...

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One wonders how much child porn was in there....

But it's AI, so itsa aaaaalllll fine

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It's kinda weird how spwsific you have to be with certain models to not make them vwry very young looking people

[–] vane@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

that's mafia level response

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahaha, what a story, Mark! Anyway, how's your sex life?

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

"define 'sex'. no, wait... define 'life'."

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 14 points 1 week ago

So their AI is so technologically weak that they can’t even blame it for all the porn downloads, eh. SMH.

[–] 843563115848@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Liars. So many liars these days...

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ok, but why would anyone bother training AI on porn? Seriously, I don't understand

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Its the best datasets for human anatomy.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gen AI porn and shitposts are the only 2 decent use cases I've seen of gen AI.

You can't make half of those without training it on porn.

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[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An article I read when this came up a couple of months ago said that basically porn was the best way to show AI unclothed human movement. Watching clothed humans move, you can get the basics but can’t see how the muscles are working. If you show it a Hollywood movie, they might see occasional shirtless scenes or artfully lit and blocked out sex scenes. Porn has the greatest amount of naked people moving their bodies.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Video generation, copyright matching, CSAM detection, those are just the first few that pop into my head.

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you not heard that everyone is now doing NSFW chatbots? Meta is just trying to catch up with Grok and Chatgpt

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[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

yes, and epstein trafficked all those children to himself.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://youtu.be/a3PmewuSb1w

Most for personal use, m-porno

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