Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not infringement. Nobody (in the US, at least) has ever been successfully prosecuted for downloading. It is never an infringement to view a work, even if that work was explicitly infringing. It is never an infringement to discuss a work you have observed, even if you observed an infringing copy.
If you ask an LLM about a copyrighted work, it does not regurgitate the work; it gives you a book report about the work. It does not create a copy; it creates a report, a summary. This is explicitly protected under fair use
Uploading is infringement. Downloading is not infringement. Nobody (in the US, at least) has ever been successfully prosecuted for downloading. It is never an infringement to view a work, even if that work was explicitly infringing. It is never an infringement to discuss a work you have observed, even if you observed an infringing copy.
If you ask an LLM about a copyrighted work, it does not regurgitate the work; it gives you a book report about the work. It does not create a copy; it creates a report, a summary. This is explicitly protected under fair use
Rightsholders aren’t going to win this one.