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Never going to happen with the current administration. Just a big Dog and Pony show.
It has to set some precedent though. Either there are valid reasons to violate copyright are there aren’t.
That presumes precedent still matters. cough Dobbs cough
Supreme Court: What's precedent again?
Does it?
Ok reading a little more the class has been certified but it hasn’t gone to trial, so there’s still a possibility of a closed-door settlement of some sort, though given the number of parties involved that seems unlikely. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. But if it goes to trial and makes it to judgement there will either have to be cases where using copyrighted materials to train AI (which seriously how is that not for generating derivative works) is found to be ok, or copyright will be held sacrosanct and the whole gen AI industry will have to pay… something. Punitive damages would make the industry cease to exist overnight, and I’d bet most publishers would prefer a check instead.