Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been accused of training their AI models on copyrighted materials uploaded to a piracy website called LibGen.
Communications show that OpenAI deleted the dataset, a move that plaintiffs argue could be construed as intentional destruction of evidence. Judge Ona Wang has already found that OpenAI improperly withheld materials, per Bloomberg.
Wish there was a way to stop them (AI companies) from using pirated sources but that can’t happen without significant DRM either… and like, they’ll just find a way anyway.
Personally I think the big push to put AI products inside of everything is just to establish a channel to harvest user data from every facet rather than provide any stated functions to the user. The artwork theft feels like just the very tip of the abusive iceberg as it were
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