[gcau]

Which companies are violating copyright on a massive scale? And what impact? (a bigger, badder impact sounds implied by you)

[beezlebroxxxxxx]

One example is basically all of the major AI players have used Annas Archives/Libgen's database to unlawfully access millions of books.

[awongh]

To be clear, scraping the entire internet so that ChatGPT knows what Mickey Mouse is may not be a fair use of copyright. Or to be more specific, being able to generate images of Mickey Mouse may not be legal- that is the ingestion of those images that give the model the ability to generate images of copyrighted material. I guess the courts will decide that soon-ish?