Comment by omeid2
2 years ago
That cat got out of the bag when Google was allowed to gobble up all copyrighted content to operate a commercial service without paying the copyright holders.
If you can demonstrate genuine benefit to society --of course, beyond mere access to copyrighted material-- even if during the course of a commercial enterprise, copyright does not apply.
Because others do it doesn't make it right and indeed, we're yet to see even remote benefit to society from the "AI" bots hype.
Eventually, one hopes to see _really good_ benefit, like... much greater than the cost and negative side effects of putting virtual pets on virtual, energy consuming hamster wheels.
This was for Google Books not AI, but it also applies to AI training nonetheless.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-goo...