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Is it stealing to train AI on people's work?
The writing, photographs and conversations people shared online became training material for machines that can now imitate them.
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You post a photograph of your garden, or a recipe you worked out over years. You meant it for whoever came by. You didn't picture a machine trained on it alongside billions of other pages to make things like it, and it's hard to say whether that is a use you allowed or a taking you didn't.
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