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Jeff Pierce's avatar

1) First solid (non-SCOTUS) ruling in AI. If you want to get copyrighted material, pay for it. Amazon has a whole book business based on that....

2) Socialism can include "social welfare". So, supporting social programs like Medicare is aligned to socialism. Everyone in Congress does seem to support Medicare...

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Alex Wilhelm's avatar

re: 1. I wonder how much of a win the ruling is for data holders; seems that the fair use doctrine will spread pretty far so long as the OG material was purchased at least once?

re: 2. Well yes but that's too nuanced a take for American politics, Jeff, come on now.

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Jeff Pierce's avatar

1) It is a win if upheld. The real ruling is if copyrighted material that is not paid for can be used, of course. Aaron Swartz committed suicide when the Obama administration filed charges for downloading and sharing copyrighted material. For AI, they basically trained on "downloaded, copyrighted material" - so I think that is the obvious major decision that could really alter LLM AI business.

VCs and the LLM companies don't seem too concerned....

2) Maybe if I used all Capitlization? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER !

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