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The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content) (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission.

The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act) would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create standards and guidelines that help prove the origin of content and detect synthetic content, like through watermarking. It also directs the agency to create security measures to prevent tampering and requires AI tools for creative or journalistic content to let users attach information about their origin and prohibit that information from being removed. Under the bill, such content also could not be used to train AI models.

Content owners, including broadcasters, artists, and newspapers, could sue companies they believe used their materials without permission or tampered with authentication markers. State attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission could also enforce the bill, which its backers say prohibits anyone from “removing, disabling, or tampering with content provenance information” outside of an exception for some security research purposes.

(A copy of the bill is in he article, here is the important part imo:

Prohibits the use of “covered content” (digital representations of copyrighted works) with content provenance to either train an AI- /algorithm-based system or create synthetic content without the express, informed consent and adherence to the terms of use of such content, including compensation)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (26 children)

I don't like AI but I hate intellectual property. And the people that want to restrict AI don't seem to understand the implications that has. I am ok with copying as I think copyright is a load of bullocks. But they aren't even reproducing the content verbatim are they? They're 'taking inspiration' if you will, transforming it into something completely different. Seems like fair use to me. It's just that people hate AI, and hate the companies behind it, and don't get me wrong, rightfully so, but that shouldn't get us all to stop thinking critically about intellectual property laws.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'm the opposite, actually. I like generative AI. But as a creator who shares his work with the public for their (non-commercial) enjoyment, I am not okay with a billionaire industry training their models on my content without my permission, and then use those models as a money machine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

This law will ensure only giant tech company have this power. Hobbyists and home players will be prevented.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are you basing that on?

Content owners, including broadcasters, artists, and newspapers, could sue companies they believe used their materials without permission or tampered with authentication markers.

Doesn't say anything about the right just applying to giant tech companies, it specifically mentions artists as part of the protected content owners.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's like saying you are just as protected regardless which side of the mote you stand on.

It's pretty clear the way things are shaping up is only the big tech elite will control AI and they will lord us over with it.

The worst thing that could happen with AI. It falling into the hands of the elites, is happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I respectfully disagree. I think small time AI (read: pretty much all the custom models on hugging face) will get a giant boost out of this, since they can get away with training on "custom" data sets - since they are too small to be held accountable.

However, those models will become worthless to enterprise level models, since they wouldn't be able to account for the legality. In other words, once you make big bucks of of AI you'll have to prove your models were sourced properly. But if you're just creating a model for small time use, you can get away with a lot.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I am skeptical that this is how it will turn out. I don't really believe there will be a path from 0$ to challenging big tech without a roadblock of lawyers shutting you down with no way out on the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think so either, but to me that is the purpose.

Somewhere between small time personal-use ML and commercial exploitation, there should be ethical sourcing of input data, rather than the current method of "scrape all you can find, fuck copyright" that OpenAI & co are getting away with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean this is exactly the kind of regulation that microsoft/openai is begging for to cement their position. Then is going to be just a matter of digesting their surviving competitors until only one competitor remains, similar to Intel / AMD relationship. Then they can have a 20 year period of stagnation while they progressively screw over customers and suppliers.

I think that's the bad ending. By desperately trying to keep the old model of intellectual property going, they're going to make the real AI nightmare of an elite few in control of the technology with an unconstrained ability to leverage the benefits and further solidifying their lead over everyone else.

The collective knowledge of humanity is not their exclusive property. It also isn't the property of whoever is the lastest person to lay a claim to an idea in effective perpetuity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Why?

Once this passes, OpenAI can't build ChatGPT on the same ("stolen") dataset. How does that cement their position?

Taking someone's creation (without their permission) and turning it into a commercial venture, without giving payment or even attribution is immoral.

If a creator (in the widest meaning of the word) is fine with their works being used as such - great, go ahead. But otherwise you'll just have to wait before the work becomes public domain (which obviously does not mean publicly available).

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