Instead, Meta argued, available evidence \u201cis plainly indicative\u201d that the flagged adult content was torrented for \u201cprivate personal use\u201d\u2014since the small amount linked to Meta IP addressess and employees represented only \u201ca few dozen titles per year intermittently obtained one file at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe far more plausible inference to be drawn from such meager, uncoordinated activity is that disparate individuals downloaded adult videos for personal use,\u201d Meta\u2019s filing said.<\/p>\n
For example, unlike lawsuits raised by book authors whose works are part of an enormous dataset used to train AI, the activity on Meta\u2019s corporate IP addresses only amounted to about 22 downloads per year. That is nowhere near the \u201cconcerted effort to collect the massive datasets Plaintiffs allege are necessary for effective AI training,\u201d Meta argued.<\/p>\n
Further, that alleged activity can\u2019t even reliably be linked to any Meta employee, Meta argued.<\/p>\n
Strike 3 \u201cdoes not identify any of the individuals who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any were employed by Meta or had any role in AI training at Meta, or specify whether (and which) content allegedly downloaded was used to train any particular Meta model,\u201d Meta wrote.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, \u201ctens of thousands of employees,\u201d as well as \u201cinnumerable contractors, visitors, and third parties access the Internet at Meta every day,\u201d Meta argued. So while it\u2019s \u201cpossible one or more Meta employees\u201d downloaded Strike 3\u2019s content over the last seven years, \u201cit is just as possible\u201d that a \u201cguest, or freeloader,\u201d or \u201ccontractor, or vendor, or repair person\u2014or any combination of such persons\u2014was responsible for that activity,\u201d Meta suggested.<\/p>\n
Other alleged activity included a claim that a Meta contractor was directed to download adult content at his father\u2019s house, but those downloads, too, \u201care plainly indicative of personal consumption,\u201d Meta argued. That contractor worked as an \u201cautomation engineer,\u201d Meta noted, with no apparent basis provided for why he would be expected to source AI training data in that role. \u201cNo facts plausibly\u201d tie \u201cMeta to those downloads,\u201d Meta claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead, Meta argued, available evidence \u201cis plainly indicative\u201d that the flagged adult content was torrented for \u201cprivate personal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-250106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}