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Source: Axios

No industry has ever documented its own foreseeable risks as loudly as AI.Imagine a plaintiff's lawyer reading the public warnings of Sam Altman and Dario Amodei: They told the world it was dangerous. They told the world it was moving too fast. Then they unleashed it and sold it to your kid.No industry has ever taken so much copyrighted work and left behind so much proof.Imagine a plaintiff's lawyer reading OpenAI's own files to a jury: They trained on a pirated library. They renamed it to something blander. Then they deleted it when the headlines got hot.Why it matters: AI's origins, use and future will be picked apart in countless epic court fights, with a historic paper and public statement trail to tap.Every significant invention — be it social media, automobiles, electricity or capitalism itself — gets disrupted and eventually shaped by the courts. AI, with its tentacles into every part of industry and life, will experience this at scale.The big picture: The fights are no longer theoretical. They're underway, in discovery and headed toward juries. Early verdicts and settlements capture the risk for the biggest players.🤖 Chatbots are being treated as products, not speech. Unlike social media companies, they likely...