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1. inferm+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:40:50
laws that were already broken can still be broken. AI exposed how broken copyright law was. AI companies also broke (and continue to break) that law
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2. at1as+M8[view] [source] 2026-02-03 18:13:05
>>inferm+(OP)
I think the problem is that “transformation” has never been clearly defined in copyright law, and that ambiguity is exactly what AI companies lean on in their defense.

At a human scale, those boundaries get clarified through litigation on a case by case basis once an infringement becomes large or obvious enough. But there has always been a gray area around when a derivative work crosses the line into infringement.

And AI didn’t create that ambiguity, it just pushed it to a more extreme scale

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