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

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451 points croes | 1 comments | 12 May 25 09:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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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wnevets ◴[12 May 25 16:50 UTC] No.43965037[source]▶
> 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.

I think most artist who had their works "trained by AI" without compensation would disagree with you.

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1. TiredOfLife ◴[12 May 25 22:21 UTC] No.43967996[source]▶
I think most people who had even basic understanding how AI works would disagree with you.