Every publisher on the web slaps a copyright onto the bottom of every page. After all, we pay staff writers for exclusive right to publish articles in the hopes of driving traffic to those articles and selling ad space.
With AI bots crawling and training on all these articles, and then basically legally rehashing what they say without attribution, does that ultimately make copyright meaningless?
Jump to Post— rproffitt 3,249Let's be clear here. If you or I did that, we'd be sued into oblivion. Laws for thee but not for me.
Let's also be clear that in the USA, grift, graft and bribery can have no consequences. The rule of law is selectively enforced.
Also, appease the Shareholders, …
It's almost meaningless now. You can download just about any book, TV show, or movie now even though they are protected by copyright. The only penalties seem to be on those who are hosting the content, and the hosting sites keep switching from country to country to avoid penalties. Some of them get around the law by claiming that they don't host the files; they only index the files on other sites. So, aiding and abetting? It's not illegal to index.
Let's be clear here. If you or I did that, we'd be sued into oblivion. Laws for thee but not for me.
Let's also be clear that in the USA, grift, graft and bribery can have no consequences. The rule of law is selectively enforced.
Also, appease the Shareholders, worship the Profits, love the Bottom Line.
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