In Austin, where we've been using Waymos pretty regularly for a few months now, we've also noticed the more assertive "behavior"—though I haven't witnessed anything like the pedestrian incident. Still, the goal should not be to have a fleet of asshole robotaxis on the road!
So why can't an AI company just "go to the library" and take out all the books available to scan them rather than buying them outright? It seems they are allowed to use written material, but the lawsuit is about authors' compensation. Or is it about payment to the publishers, since presumably the authors have already been paid by their publishers? That said, as an indie musician (i.e. without a record company) I would be a little upset if my music was used by someone else without any reference or compensation.
I'm no lawyer but I think use of material from a library is governed by license: agreements that you can only take out so many books, your time with them is limited, etc. Whereas ownership of a physical copy isn't governed by any license. If what you want is scale—and AI is nothing without it, without vast quantities of training data—license of that sort won't work.
In Austin, where we've been using Waymos pretty regularly for a few months now, we've also noticed the more assertive "behavior"—though I haven't witnessed anything like the pedestrian incident. Still, the goal should not be to have a fleet of asshole robotaxis on the road!
So why can't an AI company just "go to the library" and take out all the books available to scan them rather than buying them outright? It seems they are allowed to use written material, but the lawsuit is about authors' compensation. Or is it about payment to the publishers, since presumably the authors have already been paid by their publishers? That said, as an indie musician (i.e. without a record company) I would be a little upset if my music was used by someone else without any reference or compensation.
I'm no lawyer but I think use of material from a library is governed by license: agreements that you can only take out so many books, your time with them is limited, etc. Whereas ownership of a physical copy isn't governed by any license. If what you want is scale—and AI is nothing without it, without vast quantities of training data—license of that sort won't work.