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Libraries exist. Borrowing books from a friend exists. Even if you stole the book, using the knowledge you learned from it to make money is not copyright infrin
by imgabe 3y ago
Libraries exist. Borrowing books from a friend exists. Even if you stole the book, using the knowledge you learned from it to make money is not copyright infringement.
If you steal a book about how to make money flipping houses and then start flipping houses, at worst you are on the hook for a minor theft. The author can't sue you for illicitly learning to flip houses from the stolen book. That is just not how that works at all.
- data-ottawa 3y agoThe library is allowed to lend out books, they're not producing copies. I can lend you a book without producing a copy. I can steal a book without making a copy. I can learn from a book without making a copy. ChatGPT was trained by copying works into a dataset and using that for commercial purposes. Surely you can see how that's different.