I agree that this database looked blatantly illegal as the ones using it never actually bought the books. You can clearly sue them for counterfeiting. I still

I agree that this database looked blatantly illegal as the ones using it never actually bought the books. You can clearly sue them for counterfeiting. I still would like to see if legally a judge would consider the training illegal. I do not think this got tested and i would not consider the answer as clear cut. If a company buys a million ebooks, can it simply train an AI on it? If no employee reads the books and only the AI "reads" it you could argue that the company bought it only for a single reader/entity. They will probably need to update the copyright system to take this case into account. We will see in a few years how this plays out. In the end these authors will eventually lose their copyright after their death. And nothing will stop the AI training at that point. This only delays the inevitable by a few years. The public domain already has a lot of amazing books and resources. Google even has access to very rare books nobody else has access to digitally i think: https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/in-beginningbringing-scrolls-of-genesis/ https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/in-beg...