Well thought out and sensible position overall
Well thought out and sensible position overall
Posted Apr 28, 2026 11:56 UTC (Tue) by pizza (subscriber, #46)In reply to: Well thought out and sensible position overall by bluca
Parent article: The future of AI in Ubuntu
[citation needed] please?
Because IIUC no actual laws have changed; at best there were court cases that upheld already-existing law.
> Thanks to recent laws weakening copyright protection, absolutely everyone is legally allowed to train models on any publicly available dataset, no questions asked
The legal beef revolves around how one *obtains* the training material, not the use of said material for training. [1]
I personally hope Meta prevails here, because "I'm pirating <X> to train my personal AI" will completely eviscerate all copyright(+software) industry enforcement activities. Of course, that won't be allowed to stand, resulting in a veritable popcorn fest of dueling lobbyists, their captured legislators, and ever-more extravagant library+ballroom donations.
(Meanwhile, It's easy to say "information wants to be free" when you're not the one stuck with the hosting bill from everyone's "training" bots)
[1] https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bitt...