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Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim (www.cnbc.com)
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Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.

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[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Websites that provide links to copyrighted material are illegal in the US. It's why torrent sites are taken down and need to be hosted in countries with different copyright laws .

So Google can be used to pirate but that's not it's intention. It requires careful queries to get Google to show pirate links. Making a tool that could be used for unintentional copyright violation illegal makes all search engines illegal.

It could even make all programming languages illegal. I could use C to write a program to add two numbers or to crawl the web and return illegal movies.

[โ€“] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Oh. Linking and even downloading torrents is legal in my place. Hosting and sharing is not. My bad.

From how I understand it is that the copyright holders want the LLM to do at least the same as Google is doing against torrents: it checks so no parts of the source material is in the output.