Additional, that alleged exercise can’t even reliably be linked to any Meta worker, Meta claims.
Strike 3 “doesn’t establish any of the people who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any have been employed by Meta or had any position in AI coaching at Meta, or specify whether or not (and which) content material allegedly downloaded was used to coach any explicit Meta mannequin,” Meta wrote.
In the meantime, “tens of hundreds of staff,” in addition to “innumerable contractors, guests, and third events entry the web at Meta day by day,” Meta argued. So whereas it’s “attainable a number of Meta staff” downloaded Strike 3’s content material over the previous seven years, “it’s simply as attainable” {that a} “visitor, or freeloader,” or “contractor, or vendor, or restore individual—or any mixture of such individuals—was liable for that exercise,” Meta claims.
Different alleged exercise included a declare {that a} Meta contractor was directed to obtain grownup content material at his father’s home, however these downloads, too, “are plainly indicative of private consumption,” Meta argued. That contractor labored as an “automation engineer,” Meta famous, with no obvious foundation offered for why he could be anticipated to supply AI coaching knowledge in that position. “No details plausibly” tie “Meta to these downloads,” Meta claims.
“The truth that the torrenting allegedly stopped when his contract with Meta ended says nothing about whether or not the alleged torrenting was carried out with Meta’s data or at its path,” Meta wrote.
Meta Slams AI Coaching Idea as “Nonsensical”
Probably most baffling to Meta in Strike 3’s grievance, nevertheless, is the declare in regards to the “stealth community” of hidden IPs. This presents “yet one more conundrum” that Strike 3 “fails to deal with,” Meta claims, writing, “why would Meta search to ‘conceal’ sure alleged downloads of Plaintiffs’ and third-party content material, however use simply traceable Meta company IP addresses for a lot of a whole lot of others?”
“The plain reply is that it will not accomplish that,” Meta claims, slamming Strike 3’s “total AI coaching concept” as “nonsensical and unsupported.”
