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Comment by lousken

15 hours ago

AI companies should pay billions to wayback machine for access

I think that'd raise serious copyright concerns, if the Wayback machine started selling other people's intellectual property.

  • They wouldn't be paying for the content, just the bandwidth. Like buying a linux OS on a CD ROM was about the cost of media not profiting off of the software.

  • It's time for copyright to end anyhow; that's what's gumming up the whole project in the first place.

    • I'd have a lot less of a problem with AI if everything that went into their training was public domain and made easily available to anyone for any use. It'd feel less like AI companies were just stealing the work of others and charging for it.

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