Comment by mc32

2 months ago

Yes, they can be sued for breach of contract. And it’s not a regular ToS but a signed MSA and other legally binding documents.

the license on my open source code is a contract, and they ignored that

if they can get away with it (say by claiming it's "fair use"), they'll ignore corporate ones too

  • If I were to go out on a limb, those companies spend more on tech companies than you and they have larger legal teams than you. That is a carrot and a stick for AI companies to follow the contract.

    • no, it's not an incentive to follow the contract

      it's an incentive to pretend as if you're following the contract, which is not the same thing