Comment on Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

That’s literally not what the ruling is about. It was about an AI bro company using proprietary, copyrighted materials to train its AI, which they obtained by questionable means, after being denied license to do so by the IP owners. Further, after training the AI with unlicensed materials, they launched a competing product.

Whether you support IP or not, the AI company is clearly in the wrong here.

It’s a pretty definitive example of many AI companies being little more than leeches, stealing others’ work and repackaging it as their own. All with zero long-term consideration of “what do we do when there’s noone left to leech off of because we undermined the ability of those make the source data to make a living, while unnecessarily driving increased emissions and consumption of potable water for something that provides little actual value do humanity as a whole?”

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