Yeah, these corporations are just advocating for stealing. It’s not just OpenAI either. Suno and Udio are facing lawsuits (as they’ve both trained their music models without obtaining permissions from the actual rights owners). Meta is similarly onboard with being able to train their models without getting the proper permissions, licensing, or compensation.
Let’s look at this from the perspective of regular users who are made to feel GUILTY by companies and major organizations about downloading music, movies, software, using imagery (photos or videos) of copyrighted works, often times with huge warnings about fines and the possibility of imprisonment. These corporations however feel they have this right to not abide by these established rules regarding copyright and feel they then have this right toprofit off the work of other people. The fair use argument is just an insulting addition.
Let’s just cut to the chase. AI model training is just one HUGE THEFT operation. This is one of the biggest issues I have with not just this part of AI (which I personally prefer calling machine learning), but also the corporate executives in general (let me just generalize for a second; these folks are GREEDY and MANIPULATIVE). We just continue heading down this “capitalism gone wild” route where exploitation ends up taking priority (but hidden behind corporate PR spin to polish it into nice sounding doublespeak).
I’ve opined on AI/ML before (all of that was tame compared to how I really feel about it now given how these companies and their executives are no longer even hiding how they just want to make unfettered use of the work of others without proper compensation).
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