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OK, lay it on us.

It’s not unreasonable given the mountain of evidence of their past behaviour to just assume they are always the “bad guy”.

I would normally agree, but we're instantially talking about the company that made Pytorch and played an instrumental role in proliferating usable offline LLMs.

If you can make that algebra add up to "bad guy" then be my guest.

It seems like you're claiming that Pytorch + an open-weight LLM > everything on this wiki page, especially the anchored section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_co...

I am. I genuinely don't understand how Meta's LLM contributions have anything to do with Myanmar.

It's like telling an iPhone user that iCloud isn't trustworthy because of the Foxconn suicide nets. It's basically the definition of a non-sequitur.

Just read Careless People.

I wouldn't call mass piracy [0], for their own competitive gain, to be a "good" act. Especially when it seems they know they were doing the wrong thing - and that they know that the copyright complaints have grounds.

> The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...

Come on... Is it still necessary to remind everyone how evil meta is ? The only reason they released "open source" models was to annoy the competition. They latest stunts: https://futurism.com/meta-sketchy-training-ai-private-photos

don't call them open source when they're not. it's shared model.

It's just how they call them... Hence the quotes.

They're involved in genocide and enables near-global tyranny through their surveillance and manipulation. There are no excuses for working for or otherwise enabling them.

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