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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by shimman on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:40PM (#47443919)
"Clean room" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Having the entire corpus of knowledge for humanity and how LLMs work, how can you honestly argue in court that this is purely clean room implementation?

This is right up there with Meta lawyers claiming that when they torrent it's totally legal but when a single person torrents it's copyright infringement.

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by 20k on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:03PM (#47445078)
Far too many people treat AI as a way to launder copyright, it seems likely that a lot of the current state of outright plagiarism won't stand up in court
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by bredren on Thursday March 19, 2026 @06:06PM (#47446972)
No IP will stand up to AI, from Star Wars to Linear. Things are about to change.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by rchaud on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:14PM (#47449594)
These cases will be settled out of court long before they ever reach a jury. Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn in a class action suit [0]. Others will follow.

[0] https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/copyright-blog/the-bart...