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This is little more than baseless fearmongering.

"zip up copyrighted images using a nn" is trek level technobabble.

that's not how NNs work.

how the hell does it even connect to privacy?

copyright isn't what makes it illegal to expose and have your medical records

it's privacy violations, which this doesn't even touch

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> "zip up copyrighted images using a nn" is trek level technobabble.

Look up 'overfitting', neural-network based compression, etc. or that paper that used zip compression as a neural-network basically. Farthest thing possible from being 'technobabble' once you understand how inextricably linked compression and 'understanding' is.

Regardless of whether it's "technobabble," it's a misunderstanding of how courts operate. The law is not a formally specified algorithm. If you overfit a NN to produce someone else's work, that's not going to get you off the hook in front of a court.

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