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‘Creating a bubble is their whole business model’ | David Gerard

October 15, 2026 · 34 min

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“The business model is to make a bubble.”


Author and host of Pivot to AI David Gerard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the US Court of Appeals rejecting an AI companies claim that using copyrighted material as training data counts as fair use and how unreacted documents from The New York Times’s copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal the AI developers knew their technology would create ‘doom loops’.

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