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It's not quite the same though, when I search Google I'm generally directed to the source (though the summary box stuff might cross the line a bit).

With AI, copyrighted material is often not obvious to the end user, so I don't think it's fair to go after them.

I think it's non-trivial to make the AI company pay per use though, they'd need a way to calculate what percent of the response is from which source. Let them pay at training time with consent from the copyright holder, or just omit it.





The AI company isn’t making money off the copyrighted material, they make money off finding the copyrighted material for you.

The end user is 100% to blame for any copyright violations.


This argument didn’t work out for Napster or Google Image Search.



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