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Congress told AI firms should pay for copyrighted content
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2024
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen.
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I agree. It's basically just stealing work from others and not paying them or agreeing to licensing. Long term, it's not a good thing
For software development, AI is a useful tool, but it's likely also stealing licensed code and adding it to other people's code in some circumstances
If AI companies want to use training data, that's ok, but they should pay all of the creators it's trained from
Respect your opinion and where you're coming from, but disagree simply for the fact that this will create a silo of corporatized AI because they will be the only ones who will have the ability to pay for the IP at the necessary scale (that's not to say that this is not already happening to an extent with the existing model). I do think the conversation is worth having though about the public value of data that's readily available on the internet and how it squares with our (imo) outdated IP laws. How do we ensure that individual creators retain full control and benefit of their art/content/knowledge, while not stifling or unduly hampering AI research? How much protection do we afford data that users willingly put on the internet that's publicly available? And who pays for the data in the chain?
All of those questions are already asked and answered for regular copyright. Sorted out for music, movies, books, etc.
And what a wonderful system we have as a result.
Should human programmers have to pay creators every time they look at code while they're learning? I (and most people) have literally copy/pasted code from various websites into my own programs without any sort of payment or notice.
If you copy/pasted without any licensed then you've broken copyright yourself. It's a good way to get into trouble in a professional setting.
That's not what AI does, though.
It's what BlameThePeacock admitted to doing.
Sure, but it has nothing to do with what AI does.