UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Is anyone surprised? 'Opt outs' - and we know how well behaved tech businesses have been about both written and visual workl in the past - hae been proposed. Bty the time the author/artist has caught up they will have snaffled the work and it will be impossibe to remoce it from the corpus.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai

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