“Actually checking all the images we scraped the internet for is too hard, and the CSAM algorithms aren’t available to just anyone to check to make sure they don’t have child porn waaaaah”
It’s all because it’s a “make money first and fuck any guardrails” ethos. It’s the same shit they hide behind when saying it’s not piracy when LLMs are trained on books3, which is well known to be the entirety of a private tracker for ebooks which specializes in removing DRM and distributes the tools to remove DRM. (Specifically, Bibliotik.)
Literally, books3 was always pirated, and not just pirated, but easily provable to be a large DMCA violation of having broken encryption to remove DRM from the books. So how is any media produced from a pirated dataset not technically a copyright violation themselves? Especially when the company in question is getting oodles of money for it? The admins of the Pirate Bay went to prison for less.
You can’t tell me that a source for media that is KNOWN to be sourced pirated material somehow becomes A-Okay for a private company to use for profit. That’s just bullshit. But I’ve seen plenty of defense of it. Apparently it’s okay for companies to commit instances or piracy, as long as they make money or something? Makes no fucking sense to me.