Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money

Unsealed court documents show artificial intelligence companies scraped protected news articles and open-source code to train models without paying creators. Tech firms defend this ingestion as fair use, while internal company records describe it as a disruption to creator labor. This practice threatens publisher revenues and creates legal uncertainty around software licenses.

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