Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.
I couldn’t care less about the existence of shadow libraries. What is this attempt at pushing buzz names? Once the the data is out it is out.
She is right to bring the lawyers to the party, this is when the gafam fall, they care about laws. If they didn’t then they wouldn’t hire a legal department the size of a small african nation.
Hitting the AI devs a few time with massive fees for copyright infringement should cool down their enthusiasm and the party should tune down one notch or two. It’s all about money: when the income of ad money is lower than the outcome of fees money then the calm should be restored.