Setting aside the question of who holds it, is it an inconsistent position? If a broadening of fair use is necessary for developing large language models, it's perfectly consistent to argue it should also extend to artists/archivists/derivative works in general, otherwise you're staking out the position that pirating one book is wrong but downloading Books3 is fine
Just like every other major model out there.
Wow From the article wrote a script to remove copyright info, including the word “copyright” and “acknowledgments,” from ebooks in LibGen.
suggests that Meta strips [copyright information] ......
.....it torrented LibGen,
Incoming: Another round of "OMG that's so illegal" from the same people that say copyright shouldn't exist.
Setting aside the question of who holds it, is it an inconsistent position? If a broadening of fair use is necessary for developing large language models, it's perfectly consistent to argue it should also extend to artists/archivists/derivative works in general, otherwise you're staking out the position that pirating one book is wrong but downloading Books3 is fine
It's all so tiresome.