[vlovich123]

You seemed to have jumped off a cliff. Can’t follow your logic.

The copyright issues are between businesses for the most part. No one is suing AI. And the claim isn’t that AI is capable of generating copyrighted works. The claim is that the training of the AI used copyrighted materials which is infringement when it pretty clearly falls under transformative use.

And again, fair use applies to people and the businesses. I could maybe see your logic if you were ranting about businesses getting fair use protections and then getting a vote, but your moral panic about AI here is completely misplaced and seems to completely miss what the article is about and what my comment is trying to say.

[cowboylowrez]

You're very eager to focus on both my character (moral panic) and your inability to address my point (can't follow your logic). Maybe you can see my logic, maybe you can't. I'm also apparently suicidal lol. I think you should just ask for clarification instead of deliberately painting me as the bad guy.

Anyways, the transformative use has not been decided yet. I am also pretty sure that google books are not simply publishing entire works for free, as far as I can tell when books get published in electronic form in their entirety without the copyright owners permissions, things get dodgy. I don't remember reading a full book on google books unless the licensing was permissive or otherwise available. Is there not some limits on fair use? Why do I keep reading about these "libraries" getting shut down? What about all the sample clearing in the music business, are you somehow implying that doesn't exist? Heck, the "blurred lines" case failed because the guy merely mentioned the infringed work.

Furthermore, I view the AI thing as the AI proponents want to grant AI's "personhood," ie., just call them trained painters, trained authors, trained musicians, whatever, its not like I'm unable to see both sides of the arguments. Let the guy with the most silicon corner the market in these areas lol