Since when do AI companies care about copyright law? They're destroying them so their competitors can't use them.

A little meta - I want to point out demagogic/populist comments like these that try to clear all nuance and brush a topic in black and white tend to come from a really small portion of the users here, but the same user (whose account is only 4 months old), dominates posts like this by posting many many bait-like comments in the same post that deviate the discussion away from meaning and insight.

This is just one example, but it has become unfortunately common across all social media platforms.

Since they had to pay 1.5 billion for it

> They're destroying them so their competitors can't use them.

That's pretty silly. My competitor can't ride my bike either, and I didn't have to destroy the bike for that to be true.