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How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct


AI firms are facing major copyright challenges over their claims of fair use, and the industry’s future hangs in the balance.

All the big generative AI models from every company are tried on huge swaths of data that are scraped from the entire internet. Many of them feel like a coin flip, and when you add in the amount of hype, uncertainty, and money that comes with AI, it gets even more complicated. As you’ll hear us say in the episode, this is a potential extinction-level event for the modern AI industry on the level of what Napster and fellow file sharing sites were facing in the early 2000s.

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