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The law generally takes a dim view of such attempts to get around things like that. AI biggest defense is claiming they are so beneficial to society that what they are doing is fine.

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gmueckl 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That argument stands on the mother of all slippery slopes! Just find a way to make your product mpressive or ubiquitous and all of a sudden it doesn't matter how much you break the law along the way? That's so insane I don't even know where to start.

	▲	rcxdude 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why not, considering copyright law specifically has fair use outlined for that kind of thing? It's not some overriding consequence of law, it's that copyright is a granting of a privilege to individuals and that that privilege is not absolute.
	▲	ashoeafoot 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Worked for purdue
	▲	Retric 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		YouTube, AirBnB, Uber, and many many others have all done stuff that’s blatant against the law but gotten away with it due to utility.

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gaganyaan 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is not in any way the biggest defense

	▲	Retric 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s worked for many startups and court cases in the past. Copyright even has many explicit examples of the utility loophole look at say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....