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by rcxdude 313 days ago
>If a tech giant wants you open-source library, they will just point their agent to it and ask "to rewrite in the style of War and Peace"

Is there any evidence of this happening? And any legal theory behind how it might have the intended effect? Training being fair use does not make AI a magical copyright-removal box.

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AI is already "too big to fail" in every conceivable way. If there is a conflict between AI and the law, then the law will inevitably be rewritten, reinterpreted or repealed in the way most beneficial to the service of AI.
I expect a lot of leniency when it's something actually important to making AI work.

Training on most of the data in the world is important. Rewriting a document you don't own is not important. Or depending on what level the objection is made at, stealing some random library is not important.