AI Hypocrisy: Trillion-Dollar Copyright Infringement vs. Banned API Log Saving
proales · x · 2026-07-23
The author sarcastically points out a blatant double standard in the AI industry: major AI companies infringe on the copyright of countless books to achieve trillion-dollar valuations, only paying a tiny fraction in class-action settlements.
Meanwhile, if a developer legally pays for an API and simply saves the logs for later use, they are penalized and labeled as bad actors.
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