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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (www.wired.com)
submitted 9 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 5 points 9 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.