The double standards of citizen vs companies when it comes to laws should rightfully called out.

However, am i the only one who hopes they do get away with it.

Intellectual property has always felt disgusting to me. Knowledge is to be used and shared, not exploited to feed ego.

Copyright cannot die quick enough.

This is also how a certain nation where this concept does not exist has become the defacto factory of the world. We have criminalized local competition for the arbitrary exclusivity of those who thought it -and filled in the paper work first.

IA just sound like French AI "Intelligence Artificialle"

Is anyone surprised? If you are a big company, let's say Boeing, you can lie to the authorities about your new plane and kill 346 people with no real consequences.

Given that the Internet Archive lost their case because the judge ruled that it wasn't transformative enough, this doesn't really seem that applicable. LLMs have a much stronger argument for being transformative.

They’re getting away with it for now. Courts are slow

Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not infringement. Nobody (in the US, at least) has ever been successfully prosecuted for downloading. It is never an infringement to view a work, even if that work was explicitly infringing. It is never an infringement to discuss a work you have observed, even if you observed an infringing copy.

If you ask an LLM about a copyrighted work, it does not regurgitate the work; it gives you a book report about the work. It does not create a copy; it creates a report, a summary. This is explicitly protected under fair use

Rightsholders aren't going to win this one.

What is IA in this context, all I can think of is Internal Affairs

Hey, I heard you mention AI, do you mind if I give you millions of dollars in venture capital?

Ah, but you see, IA was doing it for the common good! We can't have that!

It's time for Internet Archive to start an AI company.