While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has openly admitted that it's virtually impossible to develop advanced AI models like ChatGPT without copyrighted content, he argues that copyright law doesn't categorically prohibit AI firms, ultimately leveraging "the fair use doctrine" to violate copyright law and destroy the internet.
More recently, Microsoft was forced to delete a blog post it had published in November 2024, which seemingly encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models following backlash from critics in a Hacker News thread.
