• ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    A court will decide such cases. Most AI models aren’t trained for this purpose of whitewashing content even if some people would imply that’s all they do, but if you decided to actually train a model for this explicit purpose you would most likely not get away with it if someone dragged you in front of a court for it.

    It’s a similar defense that some file hosting websites had against hosting and distributing copyrighted content (Eg. MEGA), but in such cases it was very clear to what their real goals were (especially in court), and at the same time it did not kill all file sharing websites, because not all of them were built with the intention to distribute illegal material with under the guise of legitimate operation.