Big Tech companies, including Google, Meta, and OpenAI, achieve significant legal victories regarding their use of copyrighted materials for AI training. A judge ruled that Anthropic's use of books constitutes fair use, allowing these companies to scrape online content without compensating original creators. This legal clarity suggests that AI models can utilize copyrighted data freely, diminishing the economic value of written content as it can be produced rapidly and inexpensively by AI. The US Copyright Office's concerns about generative AI flooding the online landscape highlight the contentious nature of these developments.
A judge recently ruled that Anthropic's use of millions of books to train its AI models qualifies as fair use, permitting the use of copyrighted content for free without the owner's permission in certain circumstances.
When copyrighted content can be scooped up for free and regurgitated in a slightly different form in milliseconds, the value of text online - even exclusive 'frontier content' - plunges.
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