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Legal scholars and AI experts are debating the implications of copyright lawsuits between The New York Times and OpenAI. Ben Sobel argues against giving AI free access to work denied to humans, highlighting the potential reshaping of copyright law. The lawsuit challenges the AI industry's reliance on the fair-use doctrine for training AI on copyrighted works, emphasizing the need for serious consideration of copyright laws in the AI community.
“The AI industry claims training AI on copyrighted works is excused by the fair-use doctrine because rights-holders cannot prevent others from copying their works to learn from them,” explains a legal scholar. “That argument would fail if made by a human” https://t.co/P5Osj77B4b
“Ever-stronger copyright protection has withheld incalculable amounts of culture from the public domain,” argues Ben Sobel in a guest essay. “But we won’t repair that damage with exceptions tailor-made to benefit the giants of AI” https://t.co/LU0jrVs6Rw
AI tools could be completely hamstrung by the expansive vision of copyright law that Sarah Silverman and the other authors in this lawsuit envision. https://t.co/WQaT9AQoen
