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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (www.wired.com)

submitted 10 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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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think it's better be pragmatic then to give everything to the big corporations.

OpenAi isn't going to takes its tool offline so the loss of revenue isn't going away. Payments won't end up in the pockets of any individual journalist. The money the few journalistic sites will receive will be used to pay for the subscription fee to the next big model while cutting off their staff since it will net them more money.

If this goes through, Google and Microsoft will spend the next few years buying data or the companies that have it. The walls will be raised and we will be fucked, legislation will only help them.

And there is simply not enough public domain data to build a competitive product. Better to tax and redistribute through UBI while keeping the field competitive and avoiding monopolies imo.