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1. Re: Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use (David)
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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:54:29 +1100
From: David <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair
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On Monday, 2 February 2026 12:56:28 AEDT Roger Clarke wrote:
> The article may not have disentangled access and reproduction rights?
Ah yes, now that you mention language use... No doubt it's in the vested
interest of certain corporations & political interests to keep their arguments
as simple & general as they can get away with, easy sentences with a high
"motherhood value" but low in semantic precision.
But the more serious the issue, and the higher up the socio-cultural hierarchy
the speaker, the more important it is to use language with care. I've heard
rhetorical flourishes from some of our leaders recently about "anti-semitism",
"terrorism", and "hate-speech" which have made me cringe. Such expressions are
NOT synonymous... and thank goodness for Constitutional Lawyers!
> Learning how to parse grammar from content is at a different level from
> republishing content that originators have sought to earn income from?
I certainly agree that LLM-parsing of "meaning" from text without understanding
is a different process to making that same meaning available as originally
written (whatever the medium). However both affect an author & publisher's
right to earn a living by selling that same content.
And I wonder how a Court would regard an LLM attributing a wrong, and possibly
actionable, meaning to an author's work? Which human entity is legally
responsible?
_DavidL_
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