Comment by andriy_koval
20 hours ago
they didn't pay yet, because court challenged settlement as inadequate.
> I doubt the Chinese models operate under similar licensing agreements.
US corps likely pay licenses when afraid to be sued, or have troubles getting that data, otherwise they just take data, which was demonstrated many times. The same apply to Chinese corps, alibaba totally can be sued in US.
China is infamous for weakly enforcing copyright law. Even when it is completely obvious that Chinese labs are training models on pirated data, US copyright holders face a virtually impossible task of proving it in court. Those lawsuits won't go anywhere.
The US is currently infamous for weakly enforcing copyright law when it comes to AI companies.
There are tons of lawsuites which resulted in banning Chinese companies from doing business in US, those lawsuits totally have consequences.
What are the most high-profile examples of the "tons" of lawsuits resulting in Chinese companies being banned from doing business in the U.S.? Isn’t it usually more action by the government - executive orders, etc?
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