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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 53 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I like Molly White’s recent take, that it might be more productive to treat this as a labor issue instead of a copyright issue (at least in principle). Even if the AI corporations aren’t technically re-selling copyrighted works, they’re still profiting from the authors’ unpaid labor.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

That's an evergreen. Tried and trusty.