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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/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Are they going to pay for anything that ever inspired them? Every time you publish an article, you owe a dollar to every English teacher you ever had? Fill out your taxes and you owe your math teachers?

It's fucking goofy...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (9 children)

That's a pretty dumb comparison. Are you suggesting that people who create stuff used to train AI are obligated to provide that education for free? People who create books/educational aids for teachers to use in classrooms still demand to be paid for that. Teachers are paid for delivering that education. The kids don't pay the teachers, as a society we tax people because education benefits us all, but the teachers are still paid (not enough!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Human brain (any brain, really) is a natural neural network which is trained throughout its life the same way an artificial neural network is. Nothing is original, every creator is "stealing" from every other creator who's work they have studied to become better creators. No creator ever in history has created anything in pure, absolute vaccuum. Every creation is a remix and amalgamation of previously created works.

And intellectual property is a spook , anyway. No-one can own an idea.

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

Property is a spook generally.

But I can't blame journalist's for wanting to eat.

Which is what this is really about. Food and paying the bills. Not intellectual property.

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