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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, downloading is illegal, and the media is still an illegally obtained copy. It's just never prosecuted, because the damages are miniscule if you just download. They can only fine you for the amount of damages you caused by violating the copyright.

If you upload to 10k people, they can claim that everyone of them would have paid for it, so the damages are (if one copy is worth €30) ~€300k. That's a lot of money and totally worth the lawsuit.

On the other hand, if you just download, the damages are just the value of one copy (in this case €30). That's so miniscule, that even having a lawyer write a letter is more expensive.


But that's totally besides the point. OpenAI didn't just download, they replicate. Which is causing massive damages, especially to the original artists, which in many cases are now not hired any more, since ChatGPT replaces them.