> The AI companies are going to wipe the floor with these litigants using copyright law as their towel because it’s basically impossible to argue that machine l

> The AI companies are going to wipe the floor with these litigants using copyright law as their towel because it’s basically impossible to argue that machine learning isn’t transformative use. The overly aggressive tone of the article is weird from the get go, and it states these (legal) opinions as fact, and never backs them up. From what knowledge or experience does the author draws this from, or is it just the opinion of Generic VC Investor who has investments in affected companies? The author does get one thing right - copyright law is about making copies. Training a model does copy material - it must, it’s how computers work - and the lawsuits allege those copies are unauthorised.