Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out
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The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts

In its submission to the Australian government’s review of the regulatory framework around AI, Google said that copyright law should be altered to allow for generative AI systems to scrape the internet.

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    That’s wrong on so many levels:

    1. Go check the Gutenberg Project and the patent registry, come back when you’ve learned them all, they’re 100% free for everyone.
    2. Fleshbags have to pay for “dumbed down” educational material just to have a chance at learning anything during their lifespan, AIs don’t.
    3. The lion’s share of “paying for education” isn’t even paid for education, but for certification. AIs would have to pay the same… if any were dumb enough to spend “several years worth of salary” on some diploma.
    4. The only part worth paying for, is “hands on experience”, which right now is far more expensive for AIs (need simulations and robots built).
    5. Training AIs already isn’t free, they need thousands to millions of repetitions to learn the stuff, which means quite a buck in server costs.

    So just because fleshbags are really bad at learning, does not mean Google’s AI has to pay for the same shortcomings, they already pay for their own.