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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not (aifray.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Yeah I have a bash one liner AI model that ingests your media and spits out a 99.9999999% accurate replica through the power of changing the filename.

cp

Out performs the latest and greatest AI models

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I call this legally distinct, this is legal advice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

mv will save you some disk space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unless you're moving across partitions it will change the filesystem metadata to move the path, but not actually do anything to the data. Sorry, you failed, it's jail for you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

stupid inodes preventing me from burning though my drive life

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This ruling stated that corporations are not allowed to pirate books to use them in training. Please read the headlines more carefully, and read the article.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

But, corporations are allowed to buy books normally and use them in training.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Please read the comment more carefully. The observation is that one can proliferate a (legally-attained) work without running afoul of copyright law if one can successfully argue that cp constitutes AI.