A lawsuit claims Google took people’s data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard.

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    1 year ago

    search engines point to your site though. You are getting back something. An LLM won‘t give a reference. It’s something else altogether.

    And there is no „robots.txt“ to block LLM training scrapers.

    Just because you publish something doesn’t imply you forfeit copyright.

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      1 year ago

      Their work isn’t being reproduced and sold. Seems like fair use. I hate to say it but I’m with google on this. Things would get much with these lawsuits succeeding

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        1 year ago

        No, but it is being used commercially for a profit.

        This seems like a situation copyright law never saw coming.

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          And that’s fair use. But I’m more on the side that a lot of things should be more fair use and modern content creators have ruined the internet. I would much prefer if the Sara Silverman’s and others realized they cant both try to use the internet for free promotion while also preventing specific people from consuming that content. I’d love if they all left. I don’t need these people as much they need us

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          1 year ago

          If I read a bunch of copyrighted books, and answer questions based on the knowledge I have acquired from them, I do not owe the authors anything.

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      See my edit. You own the copyright to your work but you do not own ① facts about your work, or ② facts contained in your work. The creators of reference works, for example, cannot assess a royalty fee from people who learn information from those reference works.

      And there is no „robots.txt“ to block LLM training scrapers.

      robots.txt is consulted by all manner of automated tools, not just search-engine indexing.