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Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
A new piece of commentary accuses major AI companies of building products on creative and journalistic work without fairly compensating the people who produced it. The argument is that AI firms extract value from copyrighted content at scale while offering little or nothing in return, and it lands amid ongoing lawsuits and licensing negotiations between publishers, artists and AI developers. Critics are pressing for payment rules; the companies argue their use of data is fair use.
Why now: Debates over copyright and compensation for content used to train AI models are intensifying as lawsuits and licensing deals unfold.
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- Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money · The Register
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