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this sounds like michael scott declaring bankruptcy
The difference being that Sony actually has teams of lawyers who specialize in copyright violations, including unauthorized sampling. If the AI companies are caught using Sony material this won’t go nearly as easily for them as stealing some random blogger’s writings or a small artist’s images.
They’re crazy if they think their catalogue hasn’t already been used to train models
Perhaps that's why they are eager to do this - think of all the money they could make from lawsuits...;-)