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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (www.wired.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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.

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[–] Dran_Arcana 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think he's suggesting that it's pretty dystopian to let creators decide that their content is free to view but only if you're a human willing to let companies spy on you while watching it.

It's either free or it's not.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not a great comparison. AI training is not problematic because of consumption, it's a problem because it is then used to circumvent copyright law.

If you do want to argue with technicalities, you also have to contend with the fact that a large part of the concerned usage is not really free. Much of this online data is funded by advertisement. Scraping it constitutes circumvention.

[–] Dran_Arcana 2 points 10 months ago

There are no contracts signed agreeing to that exchange by either me nor the scrapers. Legally, it's free.