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Arvīds Kokins · 22w
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> retyped that book back into a file and re-rendered them to claim that it's original work

You are describing an infringing *use*, which does not make the machine itself infringing. This is a bedrock of copyright law, established in 1984 with the Supreme Court's ruling in Sony v Universal (the Betamax decision), which I referenced in my thread: "A device capable of sustaining a substantial noninfringing use is not infringing."
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Cory Doctorow · 22w
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Arvīds Kokins · 22w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqhykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fschugpy I don't think anyone's arguing in court that a genAI model training script is infringement by itself? The issue is with the data set the companies collected and fed into the script. If...