Sounds like meta’s judge will have to invent a grand unified theory of fair use to excuse this.
I kept saying about various lawsuits that the important thing is discovery. Nobody knew all the idiotic shit these folks were doing, so nobody could sue them properly.
I agree with you, and fuck Facebook for a variety of reasons. I’m not defending Meta in the slightest. Nor is the allegation even false. Meta employees seeded porn to improve their torrent ratios and increase the speed with which they downloaded unlicensed copyrighted content to train their AI models. That porn was available to anyone with access to the seed, including likely minors.
My point is that the pearl-clutching Helen Lovejoy act is a bit much. The last time I downloaded p2p porn was probably on Bearshare and it included a bonzi buddy, and I was a minor at the time, but I’m not going to pretend that it’s some line in the sand. I’m not going to apply a different moral standard to Facebook than I apply to myself or anyone else.
Focus on what they did, which is bad enough, and don’t frame it in a way that provides the “but everybody does it” defense.