[kfk]

Take estimated losses of the NYT from this "innovation" and multiply by 10^x where is "x" high enough to make tech companies stop and think before they break laws next time. That would be my approach at least.

[necroforest]

which laws are broken exactly? it's not remotely settled law that "training an NN = copyright infringement"

[noitpmeder]

The training isn't the issue per se, it's the regurgitation of verbatim text (or close enough to be immediately identifiable) within a for-profit product. Worse still that the regurgitation is done without attribution.

[LargeTomato]

The legal argument, which I'm sure you are very well aware of, is that training a model on data, reorganizing, and then presenting that data as your own is copyright infringement.

[anamexis]

Right, hence the lawsuit. They allege that the Copyright Act is the law that was broken.

[zztop44]

No, we’re seeing the first steps of it (maybe) becoming settled law.