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I think their intent and knowledge of whether they needed to pay for the content or not is also important. And there's clear evidence they knew they should pay and decided not to

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Google could take their scans from the library (which they did not pay publishers for) and train an AI model on that, right? They won the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit because snippet view is transformative fair use, and I think teaching an AI model common sense and facts is even more transformative. Should Meta do the same?

> They won the Authors Guild v. Google lawsuit because snippet view is transformative fair use, and I think teaching an AI model common sense and facts is even more transformative.

What you think isn't law, it will be decided now.

> Should Meta do the same?

Well, they didn't do that. They stole the books and knew they were stealing them.

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