01/11/2024
I have been saying that while AI makes a solid argument as a way to augment our work, social, artistic, and productivity as a society, that it is not ethically sourced. We live in a society that is testing us daily to choose between digital automation to simplify our life or physical interaction to create a more authentic experience.
OpenAI is now petitioning for the right to use copyrighted works. This form of training can trivialize weeks or months of work put in by artists, codemonkeys, and even engineers.
What do you all think we are going to see in this decade when it comes to AI legislation and Copyright?
"OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models โ and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business โ without them.
As The Telegraph reports, the AI firm said in a filing submitted to a House of Lords subcommittee that using only content from the public domain would be insufficient to train the kind of large language models (LLMs) it's building, suggesting that the company must therefore be allowed to use copyrighted material.
"Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression โ including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents โ it would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials," the company wrote in the evidence filing. "Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today's citizens."
~Futurism.com