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Further, that alleged activity can\u2019t even reliably be linked to any Meta employee, Meta claims.<\/p>\n
Strike 3 \u201cdoes not identify any of the individuals who supposedly used these Meta IP addresses, allege that any were employed by Meta or had any role in AI training at Meta, or specify whether (and which) content allegedly downloaded was used to train any particular Meta model,\u201d Meta wrote.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, \u201ctens of thousands of employees,\u201d as well as \u201cinnumerable contractors, visitors, and third parties access the internet at Meta every day,\u201d Meta argued. So while it\u2019s \u201cpossible one or more Meta employees\u201d downloaded Strike 3\u2019s content over the past seven years, \u201cit is just as possible\u201d that a \u201cguest, or freeloader,\u201d or \u201ccontractor, or vendor, or repair person\u2014or any combination of such persons\u2014was responsible for that activity,\u201d Meta claims.<\/p>\n
Other alleged activity included a claim that a Meta contractor was directed to download adult content at his father\u2019s house, but those downloads, too, \u201care plainly indicative of personal consumption,\u201d Meta argued. That contractor worked as an \u201cautomation engineer,\u201d Meta noted, with no apparent basis provided for why he would be expected to source AI training data in that role. \u201cNo facts plausibly\u201d tie \u201cMeta to those downloads,\u201d Meta claims.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that the torrenting allegedly stopped when his contract with Meta ended says nothing about whether the alleged torrenting was performed with Meta\u2019s knowledge or at its direction,\u201d Meta wrote.<\/p>\n
Possibly most baffling to Meta in Strike 3\u2019s complaint, however, is the claim about the \u201cstealth network\u201d of hidden IPs. This presents \u201cyet another conundrum\u201d that Strike 3 \u201cfails to address,\u201d Meta claims, writing, \u201cwhy would Meta seek to \u2018conceal\u2019 certain alleged downloads of Plaintiffs\u2019 and third-party content, but use easily traceable Meta corporate IP addresses for many hundreds of others?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe obvious answer is that it would not do so,\u201d Meta claims, slamming Strike 3\u2019s \u201centire AI training theory\u201d as \u201cnonsensical and unsupported.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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