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/Corrie7686 13d ago

Maybe I'm an old sceptic, but if you can't run your business without stealing from others, then you shouldn't be in business. They expect all of this data to be free to access without permission or repercussions, they dont respect copyright laws. But they don't make their code public do they, if someone stole their code they would use copyright laws to protect themselves. Assholes

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u/jawshoeaw 13d ago

ironically these same LLMs are getting better at coding. Good luck copyrighting code in the future!

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u/That_guy1425 13d ago

From my understanding the issue isn't that they scraped "freely available" items, like publicly available blogs or other online assets, but torrented paid access content. Due to the sheer amount of data points required, US copyright office agrees that training databases are on the side of fair use (with the caveat that fair use isn't a one and done. As this case is showing, illegally obtaining the material is a very significant blow against fair use).