Man defends his use of copyright football streams by insisting he needs them to ‘train his AI model’
23h 16m ago by piefed.ca/u/ZeroCool in theonion@sh.itjust.works from newsthump.com
A Basingstoke man has today defended his use of copyright-protected football coverage, insisting that without it, his start-up AI business will fail.
Legendary...
“Yes, to the untrained eye, it might look like I’m simply watching Premier League matches on a dodgy stream on my laptop while drinking a beer, but what I’m actually doing is building up a huge data library for my AI model.
“Right now it just looks like I’m trying to save £100 a month on subscriptions to Sky, TNT and Amazon, but in a few years time, when I’ve figured out how computers work, you’ll be able to ask my tool to show you a full match between Manchester United’s 1999 treble winners and Manchester City’s 2023 treble winners.
“Probably.
“Either way, if it’s a defence good enough for Zuckerberg, then it’s a defence good enough for me.”
Yeah, NewsThump writes some very funny headlines, but the body of their articles don't always live up to the high standard set by The Onion. This one cracked me up though. It's the best I've read from them in a while.
The Pirate Bay. Training AI models since 2003.
What more proof do you need that there are those that the law protects but does not bind.
Nothing wrong with that.