| Honestly, I'm rather frustrated by the HN discourse on this topic. TFA (with emphasis added): > Brazil’s national *data protection* authority determined on Tuesday that Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence. > The decision stems from “the imminent risk of serious and irreparable or difficult-to-repair damage to the fundamental rights of the affected data subjects,” the agency said in the nation’s official gazette. https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/meta_eu_privacy/ (with emphasis added): > The decision to halt AI training using EU content follows complaints to *data protection* agencies in 11 European countries – and those agencies, led by Ireland, telling the Facebook giant to scrap the slurp. While there is no shortage of IP, licensing, and copyright moral quandaries in training LLMs and their ilk, Meta/FB is not getting regulated on those grounds! They are getting regulated on privacy issues. It's even there on The Register path. I'm seeing a lot of comments in these threads about IP, copyright, and licensing---which, please do take note, are well-defined legal terms and are not to be used interchangeably---but all that is irrelevant because that is not the question Meta is being made to answer for. Even more frustrating are threads/arguments to what "irrevocable (copy)rights" you give FB per their TOS without even bothering to cite the relevant bits of the TOS to prove their point. Exercise to the reader: prove/disprove that [a] FB users retain copyright of their content even when posted to FB and [b] you are merely licensing FB to specific (not universal!) uses of your content posted in their platform and [c] said license is revocable any time. The astute reader is referred to the Berne Convention but Facebook's TOS will also do just fine. Standard question, one point per answer. Bonus point question: if you have proven the points above, what action allows you to revoke the license you have granted FB? (Of course, end of the day, I'm again playing lawyer in an online forum. I'm no better than anyone else here what do I know.) |