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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not (aifray.com)
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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 18 points 2 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

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

I call this legally distinct, this is legal advice.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

mv will save you some disk space.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

stupid inodes preventing me from burning though my drive life

[–] BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day 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.