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by uoaei
1156 days ago
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Just being able to make a case doesn't mean they will consider the legal fees and resulting judgment to be valuable enough to their business, nor that the suit will even make it into the courts resulting in a final judgment. A lot of behavior that rides this line is rationalized via a careful cost-benefit analysis. |
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"I don't think they'll be bothered chasing after me"
vs.
"If it came to it I think the court will rule that they don't have a case after we play the pay-the-lawyers-all-the-money game"
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"how screwed am I if they do, I lose and I have clearly, blatantly and provably violated their terms of service"
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...because, and this is the point I'm making. There is no question; it is very very obvious if you do this, and it's not very difficult for them to prove it.
All they need is to slap you with a discovery order, look at your training data, and compare it to their output logs.