MIT economist: AI trained on unowned web data, and courts are now deciding who owns it
danielrock · x · 2026-10-23
Economist Martin Beraja argues that while AI companies training on web content no one clearly owned looks unprecedented, courts deciding data ownership follows a long historical pattern of innovation at the resource frontier. Shared by Daniel Rock, with a link to his fuller argument.
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