Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?
“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression—including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents—it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” wrote OpenAI in the House of Lords submission.
OpenAI claimed that the authors in that lawsuit “misconceive[d] the scope of copyright, failing to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly leave room for innovations like the large language models now at the forefront of artificial intelligence.”
The creative industries are hyper-oversaturated. The only creatives (music, graphic artists, writers, whatever) that make it and make any sort of money out of it are the 1% of the 1% that end up earning millions out of it. Copyright only benefits them and the corporations they work for.
It would benefit smaller artists too if we enforced it when OpenAI was looking for training data.