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US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired

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451 points croes | 2 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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wnevets ◴[12 May 25 16:36 UTC] No.43964906[source]▶
> Minnesota woman to pay $220,000 fine for 24 illegally downloaded songs [1]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota... [1]

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gruez ◴[12 May 25 16:46 UTC] No.43965002[source]▶
How is this relevant?

>The RIAA accused her of downloading and distributing more than 1,700 music files on file-sharing site KaZaA

Emphasis mine. I think most people would agree that whatever AI companies are doing with training AI models is different than sending verbatim copies to random people on the internet.

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1. breakingcups ◴[12 May 25 19:04 UTC] No.43966470[source]▶
Well, Facebook torrented the copyrighted material they used for training, which means they distributed all those files too. With the personal approval of Zuck. What is the difference according to you?

Source: https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-trained-ai-pirated-bo...

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2. gruez ◴[12 May 25 20:27 UTC] No.43967115[source]▶
Addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966888