Meta justified the use of books in artificial intelligence training: they are not economic value

The authors have complained about their works because of their unauthorized use. On the other hand, Meta claims that the use of publishing books to teach artificial intelligence models is no problem; Because these books have no “economic value”.

According to reports, the meta defense has received a lot of reactions to the accusation of illegal use of materials to teach artificial intelligence models.

Authors’ complaints of meta Because of the use of the right to publish

In a case titled “Richard Cadrey and others against the Meta platforms”, a group of prominent writers such as Pulitzer’s Winner Andrew Shan Greier, and the US National Book-winning award-winner, Tozi Kots, have complained to Meta. The authors claim that the illegal meta has extracted many books from unauthorized online libraries such as Libgen and used them to teach its artificial intelligence models.

Meta in defense has stated that the use of these books has been made as “fair use”; So the company’s action was not illegal.

Meta defense does not end there. The company’s lawyers have claimed that these books have no economic value in the form of educational materials to promote artificial intelligence. According to the expert, Meta says that a book alone has not had a profound effect on the performance of the company’s artificial intelligence and its effect is less than 0.06 %, which is technically insignificant; For this reason, Meta says there is no need to pay for the authors to use their works; Because these works have no value to teach artificial intelligence models.

These arguments clearly reflect the contradictory logic that Meta and many other companies in the artificial intelligence industry have adopted. On the one hand, these companies claim that the human content used for education is of little economic value; Therefore, they cannot be referred to as economic valuable educational data. On the other hand, these indirect content are used to build sophisticated and advanced artificial intelligence models that can have widespread impacts in the technology world and even resolve global crises such as climate change.

This treatment of content -based content and efforts to devalid their economic value is a sign of new challenges facing technology and artificial intelligence. This trend continues when it is not yet clear what measures will be taken to ensure the rights of writers and human construction content in the industry.