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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