You don't have libraries in the schools there in the USA? (It is a question, not sarcasm or something)

Maybe it works as an excuse when you claim you just wanted to train your own AI model with all those pirated books and videos.
But who am I kidding. The reality is that copyright violation, as well as quite a few other things, is only really a crime if you're poor. This current "endgame capitalism" era we're in is becoming extra-legal quite fast. Maybe we should start making interactive law books where you can view whether a particular law actually applies to your person or your company, or not. Just to keep up with the times.

Just download digital copies of the textbooks and say you need them as training material for your own AI dataset when the copyright holders come after you.

machines * big Tech Corps

Not for textbooks...

Like, if your curious there's a bunch of info out there about why the situation is so fucked.

But in general they release new editions almost every year, with the same information just shuffled so page numbers are different. Even really petty stuff like keeping the same practice work, but changing the order of answers so you need the most updated book every year.

So, hypothetically speaking, if I pirate a bunch of stuff and I get caught, I can claim I used it to train an AI model and all charges are dropped? (According to his statement, not current applicable laws)

I needed to pirate that extensive game, movie, and porn library to train a gaming, movie, and porn recomendation model

Fuck this traitor. Trump is in the Epstein files

Oh, fuck... I see. My condolences.

And a lot of professors write their own text book.

You can't defeat the fascist mental illness with logic. Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state. The only rule of law is whatever the dictator(s) believe protects their regimes/corporations profits.

In this case, Americas big tech — of which Trump recently merged some with the military — has determined copyright laws should not apply to them, and Trump is voicing their opinion (he doesn't know how anything works).

Theres a common misconception that downloading data is illegal when it's generally sharing is what gets you in trouble. There are very few people who get fined for piracy downloads around the world.

You can't expect to have a successful education program when every article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for.

"I'm going to training ai using this"

Of course not, the rules are for thee.

Trump cannot fathom anything unless there is money attached somehow.

But you aren't an oligarch of the fascist dictatorship, so you have no rights.

Countless dystopian novels have explored machine‘s human rights but the machines have already been granted more rights than us in our own dystopia.

At least those professors seem to either price their books reasonably or readily pirate it themselves to distribute.

My univeristy library would often have one or two copies of the current textbook on course reserve in the library. This meant that 1) you had to know where the course reserves were, 2) hope you could get it before one of the other 100-150 students also taking that course got it first, and 3) hope some dickhead didn’t just take it off the shelf and hide it in their study carrel or in a quiet corner of the library. Number 3 gets worse the higher the level of degree you are studying.