The Battle for Fair Use in the Age of AI

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Masnick: "This whole incident is just sad. It was an overreaction from the start, destroying what had been a clear labor of love in a useful project through misleading and misguided attacks" He says it's hard for him to see how killing Prosecraft specifically, whose creator is A, just a guy and B, so clearly sympathetic to the movement that aligned against him, is really a big win. Masnick concludes by saying we're going to have more battles like this.

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