Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-device AI listening for your dog and baby, watching what you watch, and borrowing your soundbar's mic if the TV doesn't have one. Then OpenAI banned him for reverse-engineering it.
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One of us is pulling laws out of their ass, and it's not me.
For the same reason you're allowed to rip your CDs to MP3 without the record label's permission, you can make backup scans of a book. If you then sell the book - that's not a backup. You can never let anyone else own that copy, if you want to keep using your backup. Since the easiest way to scan a book is to cut the spine off, it's not difficult to see why these companies dump the pages when they're done. Well. It's not difficult unless you stick your fingers in your ears and go 'la la la that can't be how things work.'
It's not a matter of "this time." I do not give a fuck about actual piracy. Why am I supposed to care that some company did math about library books? What they're doing is only legal because of your rights to the products you buy, and what they're doing is only required because eternal copyright has suffocated the public domain.
The US constitution explicitly states that copyright exists to promote the useful arts and sciences. Protecting dead trees with the words of dead authors, to stop a technology whose limits we've barely seen, is antithetical to that purpose.
There will come vegan models. There will be very small networks, trained on bespoke data happily provided by open-source ultranerds, which achieve the spooky parts of modern datacenter behemoths. Obviously the ability to reason doesn't require knowing what Harry Potter is.