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Re:Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Sour... by voakbasda on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:28AM (#50365999)
Except in the most egregious cases, AI is not going to be found to be derivative or infringing. The consequences go far beyond this particular type of situation; it is being used everywhere by the richest corporations to produce all kinds of content. They will not allow those works to suddenly have questionable provenance.
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Re:Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Sour... by blooalien on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:23AM (#50366907)
> They will not allow those works to suddenly have questionable provenance.

Even though many of those "richest corporations" trained their models on huge quantities of torrented ("pirated") copyrighted content and other such "stolen" data. Nothing at all questionable there... LOL

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Re:Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Sour... by jonhohle on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:42PM (#50369766)
Don’t look at tech companies that don’t care about laws and price that into their costs. Pay attention to publishers and what they allow. USCO has written opinions on this and doubled and tripled down on those opinions. AI doesn’t magically erase copyright.
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