Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI 'superintelligence'
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Meta is accused of torrenting pornography to train its AI models, sparking a lawsuit and raising concerns about the company's methods and ethics.
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One would be training content censorship models.
Another would be training general image generation models, because the trick to getting human details like fingers right turned out to be training on erotica then attempting to censor the model (if at all)