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Piracy lawsuit against Meta could set precedent for torrenting copyrighted works in AI training

Plaintiffs believe case is clear-cut infringement, but judge does not understand what torrenting is
A hot potato: Meta is embroiled in a groundbreaking AI lawsuit that could change how courts view copyright law. The case seems open-and-shut from the plaintiffs' view. However, if a judge sees otherwise, it could set a monumental precedent allowing corporations to pirate copyrighted material to train AI systems.
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Nvidia says scraping 80 years' worth of videos daily to train its AI models is in "the spirit of copyright law"

YouTube seems to disagree
A hot potato: Once again, it's been revealed that a company has been scraping data from the internet to train its AI models using a questionable interpretation of copyright law. On this occasion, Nvidia has been downloading videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other platforms to gather data for its commercial AI products.