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Right, so totally cool to ignore the law but our TOS is a binding contract.
by sotrusting 10mo ago
Right, so totally cool to ignore the law but our TOS is a binding contract.
- mc32 10mo agoYes, they can be sued for breach of contract. And it’s not a regular ToS but a signed MSA and other legally binding documents.
- blibble 10mo agothe license on my open source code is a contract, and they ignored that if they can get away with it (say by claiming it's "fair use"), they'll ignore corporate ones too
- LPisGood 10mo agoIf I were to go out on a limb, those companies spend more on tech companies than you and they have larger legal teams than you. That is a carrot and a stick for AI companies to follow the contract.
- blibble 10mo agono, it's not an incentive to follow the contract it's an incentive to pretend as if you're following the contract, which is not the same thing
- protocolture 10mo agoWhere are they ignoring the law?
- yieldcrv 10mo agopeople that say this tend to have a misinterpretation of copyright, and use all the court cases brought by large rights holders as validation despite all 3 branches of the government disagreeing with them over and over again
- sotrusting 10mo ago[flagged]
- sotrusting 10mo agohttps://www.reuters.com/business/environment/musks-xai-operating-gas-turbines-without-permits-data-center-environmental-group-2024-08-28/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/musks-xai-opera...
- protocolture 10mo agoThats an allegation. Doesnt an allegation need to be tested?