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Ryan Bridge: Is this really AI theft?
IP lawyers will be licking their lips with all these AI cases landing on their desks.
The latest, we spoke about it yesterday, was Sony and Warner going after Anthropic.
Their argument is basically that Anthropic's AI models, the ones we use to get answers to questions, scrape and bottom trawl the internet for information.
That information, including song lyrics, is often IP owned and produced by humans or companies. So, scraping it and using it to sell as a product is theft.
Media companies in New Zealand take a similar view.
If the robot is scraping content produced, at cost, by a news…
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