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I believe the answer is almost certainly yes under current law. Whenever the topic of copying material for model training purposes arises on hn, however, a num
by twoodfin 3y ago
I believe the answer is almost certainly yes under current law.
Whenever the topic of copying material for model training purposes arises on hn, however, a number of folks seem convinced such use falls under the rubric of “transformative” and will be considered fair use.
- yesco 3y agoDo you just believe this or was this tested in court yet? I haven't been following the various lawsuits on this issue closely but I had thought that, so far, they were leaning towards fair use.
- twoodfin 3y agoI believe it, and I don’t think it’s been significantly tested. It’s hard to see how mixing (copying!) a bunch of books into a computer algorithm to produce (commercially!) content that might itself easily be incorporated into a book in the same market could possibly be fair use.