At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

  • burliman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Yep. Effectively outlawing AI with this licensing hogwash (which no human who is learning how to write or draw from the same content must pay), will only drive it into the bowels of the rich and powerful. Then you will have your AI dystopia.

    • wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      The choices here are to respect copyright or destroy it. Having and AI exception is nonsense.

      "I’m not illegally downloading the latest blockbuster/ best seller / chart topping album. I’m scraping the internet for training data for my AI. It just so happens I need to filter the data by hand before it can injest it. I keep looking for suitable data, but haven’t identified any yet. "

      There’s plenty of non copyright material out there to do research on. It won’t make for useful AI products, but they can start licensing for that.