The author insists that OpenAI and similar companies should pay creators for using their work, drawing parallels to the decline of newspapers and magazines in the 1990s due to their inability to profit from online publishing. The author warns that if these companies continue to exploit content without compensation, the quality of online content will deteriorate, resulting in less valuable learning material for AI engines. The author concludes by urging these companies to share their wealth with content creators for the benefit of all parties involved.
Key takeaways:
- OpenAI and other generative AI companies are accused of using publicly available internet materials, including copyrighted content, for training their AI models without paying the original content creators.
- The New York Times has sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, arguing that millions of its articles are being used to train chatbots that compete with it.
- OpenAI's defense is that the use of publicly available internet materials for training AI models is fair use, and that the Times did not meaningfully contribute to the training of their models.
- The author argues that content creators should be paid for their work, warning that the quality of online content could decline if they are not compensated, which would in turn affect the quality of AI training data.