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Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
this is a very common human activity
You asked if it's moral, this is irrelevant
I did not
The original post in this chain talked about ethics, I was continuing that conversation.
In terms of free use, I feel the collection/aggregation of the data is a work in itself. You are taking a greater portion than the author specified you can take. Courts have ruled this does not constitute free use when people used yahoo's market data. How is it any different now when people are using orders of magnitudes more data.