AI companies have been buying, scanning, and even destroying physical books to train their models. And now, the copyright battle surrounding AI training has reached a massive turning point. One AI company agreed to what has been described as the largest publicly reported copyright class-action settlement in history after authors accused it of using pirated books to train its models. The case has become one of the biggest examples yet of the legal fight over where AI companies can get their training data. AI needs enormous amounts of human-created knowledge to become smarter. But who should pay for that knowledge? And who gets permission to use it? The AI copyright war is only getting started. Follow futurewalt.ai for more AI updates. 🚀 📩 DM for credit or removal. #ai #copyright #artificialintelligence #books