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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    10 months ago

    This ruling only applies to the 2nd Circuit and SCOTUS has yet to take up a case. As soon as there’s a good fact pattern for the Supreme Court of a circuit split, you’ll get nationwide information. You’ll also note that the decision is deliberately written to provide an extremely narrow precedent and is likely restricted to Google Books and near-identical sources of information.

    • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      61·
      10 months ago

      Have there been any US ruling stating something along the lines of “The training of general purpose LLMs and/or image generation AIs does not qualify as fair use,” even in a lower court?

    • Eccitaze@yiffit.netEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Hell, that article is also all about Google Books, which is an entirely different beast from generative AI. One of the key points from the circuit judge was that Google Books’ use of copyrighted material “…[maintains] respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders.” The appeals court, in upholding the ruling that Google Books’ use of copyrighted content is fair use, ruled “the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals.”

      If you think that gen AI doesn’t provide a significant market substitute for the artwork created by the artists and authors used to train these models, or that it doesn’t adversely impact their rights, then you’re utterly delusional.