Industrial-scale pretraining should not be treated as fair use, the author argues
dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-07-28
The post says industrial-scale pretraining should not be justified as fair use.
- The argument is that companies already pay for data, so there is a market for training licenses.
- Taking data and training models on it is said to interfere with that market.
- Therefore, the author argues, it should not count as fair use.
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