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Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not (aifray.com)
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[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the issue is they didn’t buy a legal copy of the book. Once you own the book, you can read it as many times as you want. They didn’t legally own the books.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Right, and that's the, "but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works," part that's still up in the air.