OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

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OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.

Currently, courts are mulling whether AI training is fair use, as rights holders say that AI models trained on creative works threaten to replace them in markets and water down humanity's creative output overall.

OpenAI is just one AI company fighting with rights holders in several dozen lawsuits, arguing that AI transforms copyrighted works it trains on and alleging that AI outputs aren't substitutes for original works.

So far, one landmark ruling favored rights holders, with a judge declaring AI training is not fair use, as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market, Wired reported. But OpenAI now appears to be looking to Trump to avoid a similar outcome in its lawsuits, including a major suit brought by The New York Times.

 

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OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

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National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

 

This is some grade A BS.  Sam Altman was called out on stealing intellectual data to train their AI, now they are saying you have to let it happen because of national defense reasons.

 

He also told everyone in AI to just steal the data and then pay off the settlements because they will all be worth billions.  The problem is, they haven't successfully marketed it to generate a revenue stream and investors are getting scared they will be caught holding the bag.

 

I've been saying for years, what makes AI valuable is the vast data they can pull from, but they didn't create that data and they don't have the rights to it.

 

"But China will do it anyways!"  I suppose we should just remove all copyright laws because China has been making cheap knockoffs for years.  Heck, half the time it's the same product because they make those products, they just can't put the official name brand on it or the price skyrockets.