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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] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

“What would that even look like?” asks Sarah Kreps, who directs the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University. “Requiring licensing data will be impractical, favor the big firms like OpenAI and Microsoft that have the resources to pay for these licenses, and create enormous costs for startup AI firms that could diversify the marketplace and guard against hegemonic domination and potential antitrust behavior of the big firms.”

As our economy becomes more and more driven by AI, legislation like this will guarantee Microsoft and Google get to own it.

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

Well fuck all those artists and writers who made the original works then I guess. Licensing is impractical.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're going to get fucked either way, may as well live in the world where smaller AI companies have a chance. It's already bad enough that openai got to slurp reddit and twitter for free and nobody else can.

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