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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

  • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
    45·
    2 years ago

    The thing is, copyright isn’t really well-suited to the task, because copyright concerns itself with who gets to, well, make copies. Training an AI model isn’t really making a copy of that work. It’s transformative.

    Should there be some kind of new model of renumeration for creators? Probably. But it should be a compulsory licensing model.

    • jecxjo@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      The slippery slope here is that we are currently considering humans and computers to be different because (something someone needs to actually define). If you say “AI read my book and output a similar story, you owe me money” then how is that different from “Joe read my book and wrote a similar story, you owe me money.” We have laws already that deal with this but honestly how many books and movies aren’t just remakes of Romeo and Juliet or Taming of the Shrew?!?

      • Square Singer@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Well, Shakespeare has beed dead for a few years now, there’s no copyright to speak of.

        And if you make a book based on an existing one, then you totally need permission from the author. You can’t just e.g. make a Harry Potter 8.

        But AIs are more than happy to do exacly that. Or to even reproduce copyrighted works 1:1, or only with a few mistakes.

      • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        If you say “AI read my book and output a similar story, you owe me money” then how is that different from “Joe read my book and wrote a similar story, you owe me money.”

        You’re bounded by the limits of your flesh. AI is not. The $12 you spent buying a book at Barns & Noble was based on the economy of scarcity that your human abilities constrain you to.

        It’s hard to say that the value proposition is the same for human vs AI.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Challenge level impossible: try uploading something long to amazon written by chatgpt without triggering the plagiarism detector.