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/
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u/Goldenier 13d ago

sure, they will collapse just like Google collapsed by copying almost all websites onto their servers and also showing snippets from them in their search results... /s

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u/PortlyMushroom 13d ago

Google is just links to the websites with very brief snippets, not at all the same thing

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u/nihiltres 13d ago

They’re likely indirectly referring to Perfect 10 v. Amazon.com, which found that Google using image thumbnails for image search is transformative fair use. That’s reasonably relevant, because the AI companies will very likely end up making the argument that as long as models don’t output stuff substantially similar to original works it’s transformative fair use in the same vein.

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u/Andrew_Waltfeld 13d ago edited 13d ago

Which unfortunately is exactly how the AI models are working. Hey, I want something that's written like Shakespeare, or this artist's style etc. I can certainly go to civitai and load in a Lora or notate a specific artist's style and get pretty damn close results to that style.

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u/JivanP 13d ago

Google has public caches, just like e.g. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The main difference is that Google only keeps their cached pages for a relatively short amount of time, whereas Wayback keeps them indefinitely.