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   Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2026 01:17:12 JST Dare Obasanjo

   There are two different battles in AI & copyright today.

   1. Is AI training on copyrighted materials fair use? OpenAI & Microsoft just got hit with new lawsuits.

   2. Are AI systems reproducing copyrighted work? Microsoft showed less than 1% Copilot chats contained a 16-word match with news content.

   The second question is interesting in the narrow case of using AI as a form of piracy to reproduce copyrighted work.

   Summarizing a news article is a much harder argument. If a summary that substitutes for reading the original is copyright infringement, that impacts copyright far beyond AI.

   https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-times-authors-lawsuit

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 07-Sep-2026 01:17:12 JST Rich Felker

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     @carnage4life "Less than 1%" is still quintillions of dollars in statutory damages.