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US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« (techcrunch.com)
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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Precedent that copyright is not legally enforceable

[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Precedent that laws don't apply to billionaires.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Crime is legal now.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Got it, so then they're outlaws and I can do whatever I want to them.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Precendent was already there. Copyright has never been enforceable when it's transformative. Collage is legal, so was training neural nets before the copyright industry saw money in it.