Is it permissible to take leftover food from a hotel instead of throwing it in the trash? And is it forbidden to transcribe audio clips from TV series for training artificial intelligence, knowing that they will not be published?
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If the food is going to be thrown in the trash, then it is permissible for you to take it and benefit from it, because it is something people discard out of disinterest, and whoever precedes [others] to a permissible thing has a greater right to it.
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