Publishers Weekly reports on the confusing ruling on US Copyright law in relation to AI. From the article:
A federal judge in California has issued a complicated pre-trial ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving artificial intelligence training, finding that, while using legally acquired copyrighted books to train AI large language models constitutes fair use, downloading pirated copies of those books for permanent storage violates copyright law. The ruling represents the first substantive judicial decision on how copyright law applies to the AI training practices that have become standard across the tech industry over the full-throated condemnation of the book business.
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