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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by bayindirh on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:36PM (#39018781)
Oh, right. It just reads a million books in a couple of days, removes all the source information, mix and match it the way it sees fit and sells this output $10/month to anyone comes with a credit card.

It's the same thing with GitHub's copilot.

A book publisher would seize everything I have, and shot me at a back alley if I do 0.0001% of this.

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by somethingsaid on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @04:29PM (#39019410)
Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability to moderate how much damage is done to publishers with it. That wasn’t an issue before recently, as humans were the only ones who could create output based off fair use laws.
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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by MacsHeadroom on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:37PM (#39022960)
> Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability

Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. strongly disagrees with you on that (the "Google Books case").

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