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In a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence and copyright law, Meta has secured a bittersweet partial fair use victory in its defense of a 'piracy' lawsuit filed by several book authors. While granting Meta summary judgment on specific claims, the court outlined how copyright challenges against AI developers might succeed in the future. The decision emphasizes the critical importance of proving potential market harm, specifically by AI-generated books.

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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 5 points 6 hours ago

This is the argument that bothers me:

The court also identified a third argument, which the authors didn’t pursue in great detail; market dilution. Under this theory, AI models trained on copyrighted works can generate “countless works that compete with the originals, even if those works aren’t themselves infringing,” Judge Chhabria wrote.

So, even if what you make isn't infringing on their rights, its still competing with them which should be forbidden. That whole argument is a machine shouldn't be allowed to compete with a human. So, if I am inspired by another's work, that's ok, but if a machine does that we need to ban it.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 7 points 8 hours ago

Second, the plaintiffs argued that Meta’s unauthorized copying harmed the relatively new market for AI training licensing. The court dismissed this too, ruling that the harm from the loss of licensing fees is not “cognizable”.

So all loss claimed by media giant for lost subscription (license fee) is not cognizable.

“As should now be clear, this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one,” the ruling reads.

No decision made then.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So, now we train an AI on a single Release, let it generate that release and share it legally under fair use?

Or let people generate the release themselves under fair use?

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 hours ago

Nah you just need money