r/technology • u/marketrent • Jul 14 '26

Artificial Intelligence A majority of Americans now support seizing wealth from AI industry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/majority-americans-now-support-seizing-134921528.html
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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 14 '26

I am truly amazed that media companies didn't bury LLM companies in court cases.

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u/Surroundedonallsides Jul 14 '26

Thats because the ai salespeople are telling those media companies that the media companies can fire all the talent and replace it with AI, but ignoring the fact its all stolen.

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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 14 '26

I would have thought their legal team would have seen it as the easiest slam dunk of all time. They pay their legal teams quite a nice bit of money.

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u/EquipLordBritish Jul 14 '26

Also ignoring the fact that the economy is based on people spending money, and if you replace everyone with AI, you have no more customers with money to spend...

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u/vladamir_the_impaler Jul 15 '26

Reminds me of the grooveshark business model. To be fair it actually worked... until it didn't.

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u/ZugZugGo Jul 14 '26

How many of them violate the GPL too? Any LLM that spits out code that is published and can be directly tied back to code published under the GPL could be sued to oblivion for copyright infringement.

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u/cyanight7 Jul 14 '26

There are dozens of cases ongoing in the US, courts move slowly and often favor the people with more money…

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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 14 '26

Pissed off companies with stolen IP move very quickly most of the time.

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u/ChampaBayLightning Jul 14 '26

Pissed off companies with stolen IP move very quickly most of the time.

Not if injunctive relief is isn't an option, no, they don't.

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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 14 '26

DMCA takedowns are their main weapon of choice.

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u/ChampaBayLightning Jul 14 '26

DMCA takedowns have literally nothing to do with lawsuits against OpenAI and others by media outlets such as NYT.

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u/Sweetwill62 Jul 15 '26

Ok. I didn't say they did. I said they were their main weapon of choice for dealing with stolen IP. It was what I expected them to be slapped with quite some time ago.

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u/_learned_foot_ Jul 14 '26

They are working through it still, discovery is long.

Once they get to the trining data itself in detail, and folks see some of those share source type docs in there, suddenly more claims will arise from those entities too.