It's disgusting that fair use is being abused to circumvent copyright, and allowing AI companies to legally use copyrighted books to train their systems, without the authors permission.

In the Bartz v Anthropic case, the judge ruled that, "using copyrighted books to train an AI system can qualify as fair use under federal law."

It is a blatant abuse of fair use, and further endangers authors, who already, on average, earn below minimum wage; if copyright and fair use doesn't adapt, it will only damage writers, artists, and creative industries more.

AI is endangering the environment, working people, inflating energy prices, worsening the water crisis, and taking advantage of people who, individually, cannot fight back, all in the name of "innovation" that isn't happening, and if it did, it would only further widen the wealth inequality gap. 

The argument made was, "it doesn't violate copyright because it doesn't output the work verbatim," but without fresh human-made art, and writing, these generators would be incapable of doing anything 'creative,' and it could outout the work verbatim; if an AI generator was asked to write The Hobbit, or the second Percy Jackson book, it would recite it vertabim because it can only state what has been stolen. It can only output what was been put in. The character of use is commercial, the nature of work is creative, it is using entire books, and it is effecting the market value of human written books, and human made art. That isn't fair use, or lawful curation, it is copyright infringement.

Honest, working-class people are being expected to pick up the slack created by these AI companies, paying higher energy costs, while their jobs are endangered by a machine that hallucinates frequently. 

It is using natural resources, like water, untouched spaces, and, planes, woodland, while new studies have found that the noise caused by these data centres could be linked to health issues, and a temperature increase of up to 3°, in the surrounding area. 

There are even discussions of ocean space being used to cool data centres. 

The laws surrounding protecting writers and artists, at minimum, need to adapt.