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Amazon- and Google-backed AI firm Anthropic says “general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist” if AI companies had to pay licences for the training material (www.computerweekly.com)

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) company Anthropic has claimed to a US court that using copyrighted content in large language model (LLM) training data counts as “fair use”, however.

Under US law, “fair use” permits the limited use of copyrighted material without permission, for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research.

In October 2023, a host of music publishers including Concord, Universal Music Group and ABKCO initiated legal action against the Amazon- and Google-backed generative AI firm Anthropic, demanding potentially millions in damages for the allegedly “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics”.

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[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

But you're all for stealing content willy-nilly?

And this is being offered to people without it being a privately owned blackbox licensed out for money.

Feels kinda inconsistent.

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Feels kinda inconsistent.

Perfectly consistent. Seeming otherwise is down to a failure to grasp my position, not any inconsistency of the positions themselves.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If you steal content from creatives, does that not put them out of work?

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

No. Building a box that replaces them does that.

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