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by mrweasel 733 days ago
Uber is banned in multiple countries and pulled out of many more because they where told to follow the law and that makes their business unprofitable.
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So? They have a market cap of $150 billion. If at the start they had decided "oh well let's not bother since what we are doing is legally ambiguous" they would have a market cap of $0.
And that's great, they are making a lot of money in markets where they are allowed to operate and comply with local laws.

I'm just interested in seeing if AI companies can do the same, if they are going to be required to pay licenses on their training data.