Would be better if the fee were nominal, but that all their training data must never be used. Start them over from scratch and make it illegal to use anything that it knows now.
Knee cap these frivolous little toys

Holy fuck pick a lane or go huff your farts troll.

Scrapping the Internet is not illegal. All AI companies did much more beyond that, they accessed private writings, private code, copyrighted images. they scanned copyrighted books (and then destroyed them), downloaded terabytes of copyrighted torrents ... etc

So, the message is like piracy is OK when it's done massively by a big company. They're claiming "fair use" and most judges are buying it (or being bought?)

I'm the troll?

Everything here is about American copyright law, which is explicitly justified within our constitution, and has been horribly abused since Disney effectively set the definition of "temporary" to mean "forever, minus a day".

Yet you want to stick your special little foreign nose in here, and express your special little foreign opinion on how those copyright bandits deserve to permanently lock cultural iconography behind a fucking paywall.

You don't even seem to be realizing that you're slurping on Corporate America's asshole; that the special little opinions you are expressing are shared and promoted by our Head Cheetoh in Charge. In your zeal for shutting down AI slop, you are supporting the MPAA, RIAA, Disney, and Donald J. Trump.

Pull your head out of your ass and critically evaluate the situation. Start with the fundamental purpose of copyright law, and who it is ultimately supposed to benefit. It's not the content creators. It is not the publishers. It is not the various lobbying associations.

The principal beneficiary of copyright law is supposed to be the general public.

We are asked to temporarily give up our public domain rights and allow content creators a brief period of exclusive control. This is in order to convince content creators to continue creating, rather than building an entire industry devoted to resting on their laurels.

The AI industry is using copyright law the same way that the general public was always supposed to be able to. You are siding with the abusers because you don't like the abused.

I love this. I hope big-tech/big-AI destroys big-copyright industry.

My guess is that the EFF is mostly concerned with the fact this is a class action and also worried about expanding copyright in general.

Nah, the only thing that could realistically happen is that copyright doesn't apply to AI hosted by large corporations. In no way will this destroy copyright claims against individuals or small companies.

They could move to a voluntary model in the worst case, they don't profit from it. Institute a "robots.txt" style protocol for signalling opt-in intent to volunteer for scraping by the archive.

yeah that might work, but what will happen to all the data they store currently?

I would imagine someone would still need to actually sue the Internet Archive for this to be a problem for them. The vast majority probably won't care, and they'll likely just have to deal with whatever the equivalent of a DMCA takedown notice is for them.