The RIAA wanted thousands in damages for someone sharing an MP3, let's hope those same level of figures are applied to AI companies. An entire industry based on massive copyright infringement. If paying for content breaks your business model, then tough, you deserve to fail.
Record Companies Bring Landmark Cases for Responsible AI Against Suno and Udio in Boston and New York Federal Courts, Respectively - RIAA

Copyright Infringement Cases Against AI Music Services Seek to Stop Unlicensed Use of Copyrighted Sound Recordings to “Train” Generative AI Models RIAA-Managed Litigation Would Assure Artist, Songwriter, and Rightsholder Control of their Works WASHINGTON, DC (June 24, 2024) – The Recording Industry Association of America® (RIAA) today announced the filing of two copyright infringement cases... Read More »

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@anon_opin there is a definite difference between "copying a work and distributing it in the same form", where you might notice the word "copy" there, which is the origin for "copyright": the artist has a right to control who and how copies their work.

On the other hand, AI scraping doesn't "copy" and definitely not "redistribute" the copyrighted work. So let's see, how the judges and copyright lawyers see the difference.