Comment by hintymad
2 hours ago
> they can afford the penalties and continue doing it.
I thought they could've bought just a single copy of each book and use the content to train their models. In that case, it falls into the fair use doctrine and they wouldn't need to pay the fine. And that will be way less expensive than the $1.5B price tag.
That's what they're doing now, when they are established.
But when it was a proof of concept, they were using pirated data.
Just like Spotify did.