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  • BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.workstoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhy is Google takeout so bitchy?
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    3 months ago

    Probably because the individual engineers working on Takeout care about doing a good job, even though the higher-ups would prefer something half-assed. I work for a major tech company and I’ve been in that same situation before, e.g. when I was working on GDPR compliance. I read the GDPR and tried hard to comply with the spirit of the law, but it was abundantly clear everyone above me hadn’t read it and only cared about doing the bare minimum.




  • Copyright law is full of ambiguities and gray areas, some intentional and some unintentional. The concept of “fair use” is an example of an intentional gray area, since the idea is that society as a whole will benefit from allowing people to skirt copyright law in certain circumstances, and lawmakers can’t possibly hope to enumerate every such circumstance. It then falls on courts to determine if a given circumstance falls under “fair use”. The problem is courts move very slowly when faced with a new circumstance that hasn’t been litigated before, and that’s what’s happening with AI companies training AI on copyrighted works. Once decisions have been made and stare decisis is established, then they’ll move faster. The NY Times vs OpenAI is the case to watch IMO, since that’s the biggest one challenging the idea that training AI is fair use.