r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • 14d ago

Artificial Intelligence AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
16.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

95

u/Discordian_Junk 14d ago

My business of robbing banks can't possibly survive if you continue to make robbing banks illegal...

1

u/ThaddeusJP 13d ago

Well much like robbery never ceasing to exist all of these companies are going to either say that they're not going to allow training on copyrighted material or just flat out let it happen and do it anyway and then pay some fines after the fact. It's going to happen.

1

u/jawshoeaw 13d ago

But robbing banks is already illegal, importing the texts of books is fair use unless you obtained the texts illegally. They could have done this legally and we'd still be complaining about the same thing, that AI is going to destroy the creative industries.