• Enkimaru@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    You can digitize the books you own. You do not need a license for that. And of course you could put that digital format into a database. As databases are explicit exceptions from copyright law. If you want to go to the extreme: delete first copy. Then you have only in the database. However: AIs/LLMs are not based on data bases. But on neural networks. The original data gets lost when “learned”.

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      7 hours ago

      If you want to go to the extreme: delete first copy.

      You can; as I understand it, the only legal requirement is that you only use one copy at a time.

      ie. I can give my book to a friend after I’m done reading it; I can make a copy of a book and keep them at home and at the office and switch off between reading them; I’m not allowed to make a copy of the book hand one to a friend and then both of us read it at the same time.