Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoBut it would also mean that the Internet Archive is illegal, even tho they don’t profit, but if scraping the internet is a copyright violation, then they are as guilty as Anthropic.
Scrapping the Internet is not illegal. All AI companies did much more beyond that, they accessed private writings, private code, copyrighted images. they scanned copyrighted books (and then destroyed them), downloaded terabytes of copyrighted torrents … etc
So, the message is like piracy is OK when it’s done massively by a big company. They’re claiming “fair use” and most judges are buying it (or being bought?)
i say move it out of the us
they should have done that long ago, and if they haven’t already started a backup in both europe and china, it’s high time
magikmw@piefed.social 2 days ago
IA doesn't make any money off the content. Not that LLM companies do, but that's what they'd want.
axmo@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Profit (or even revenue) is not required for it to be considered an infringement, in the current legal framework.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Do you think that would rescue the IA from the type of people who made the IA already pull 300k books?
magikmw@piefed.social 2 days ago
No. But going after LLMs wont make the situation for IA any worse, not directly anyway.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
if the courts decide that scraping is illegal, IA can close up shop.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And this is exactly the reason why I think the IA will be forced to close down while AI companies that trained their models on it will not only stay but be praised for preserving information in an ironic twist. Because one side does participate in capitalism and the other doesn’t. They will claim AI is transformative enough even when it isn’t because the overly rich invested too much money into the grift.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Archival is a fair use.