AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

You mean they are openly going to steal more copyrighted material that they weren’t able to find on Pirate Bay. Shouldn’t this mean copyright is no longer valid anymore?

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credit_guy 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't understand this point of view. They buy the book, they use it for training. When you read a book, you use it to train your brain. Is that copyright infringement?

Downloading from Pirate Bay is indeed theft, someone put the scan of the book online, you download it without paying, the author and publisher of the book do not get any royalties. Very different situation.

	▲	b3ing 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could always just buy a used book or get it from the library, the publisher and writer don’t get paid but once and it switched hand multiple times. When is this not plagiarism? As AI will just briefly paraphrase so it’s not exact word for word. They rarely give credit and only late add some sources but only the top sites despite gobbling down the entire web. Wikipedia editors do the same, good luck on getting your site credited and a link on there for more than a day/week unless you have connections.