OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    the corporations rich enough to pay for the licensing or lucky enough to already have the rights to a trove of source material

    Oh, don’t worry about them. Start-ups can get VC funding to pay for the licenses. Eventually we all pay. The likes of Sam Altman can get rich. The venture capitalists can get rich. All while the heirs of the NYT or Getty empires get richer still. Everyone will be rich. Except us, of course. It’s very ethical. We all want ethical AI and that means capitalist AI.

    • trafficnab@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      The way I see it, creatives lose no matter what here, so they can either lose and only the corpos benefit, or they can lose and everyone benefits