people and companies are copying copyrighted content when they're using datasets that contain copyrighted content (which also repackage and distribute copyright

people and companies are copying copyrighted content when they're using datasets that contain copyrighted content (which also repackage and distribute copyrighted content - not just as links but as actual works/images too), download linked copyrighted content, and store that copyrighted content. plenty of copies created and stored, it seems to me. and like, what, do you think they're trying their damnedest to keep datasets clean and to not store any images in the process? how do you think they retrain on datasets over and over? it's really simple - by storing terabytes of copyrighted content. for ease of use, of course - why download something over and over, if you can just download it and keep it. and if they really wanted to steer clear of copyright infringement, if there's truly "no good solution" (which is bullshit for compute, oh, they can compute everything but not that part) - why can't they just refrain from recklessly scraping everything, if something were to just 'slip in'? like, if you know it's kinda bad, just don't do the thing, right? well, maybe copyright infringement is just acceptable to them. if not the actual goal. what they generate is kinda irrelevant - there's plenty of copyright infringement happening even before any training were to be done. assembling of datasets and bad datasets containing copyrighted content are the start and the core of the copyright problems. there's a really banal thing at the core of this, and it's just a multi-TB storage filled with pirated works.