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OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development.
AI companies cannot freely innovate while having to comply with "overly burdensome state laws," according to OpenAI. The company claims that laws regulating AI are "easier to enforce" with domestic companies, imposing compliance requirements that "weaken the quality and level of training data available to American entrepreneurs." OpenAI suggests that the government provide "private sector relief" from 781+ AI-related bills introduced in various states.
OpenAI outlines a "copyright strategy" that would preserve "American AI models' ability to learn from copyrighted material." OpenAI argues that AI models should be able to be trained freely on copyrighted data, because they are "trained not to replicate works for consumption by the public" and thus align with the fair use doctrine. With its AI copyright laws, OpenAI says that the European Union has repressed AI innovation and investment.
OpenAI claims that if AI models are not provided with fair use access to copyrighted data, the "race for AI is effectively over" and "America loses." OpenAI asks that the government prevent "less innovative countries" from "imposing their legal regimes on American AI firms."
For AI data sharing, OpenAI suggests a tiered system that would see AI tech shared with countries that follow "democratic AI principles," while blocking access to China and limiting access to countries that might leak data to China. The company also suggests government investment in utilizing AI technology and building out AI infrastructure.
The use of copyrighted material for AI training has angered artists, journalists, writers, and other creatives who have had their work absorbed by AI. The New York Times, for example, has sued Microsoft and OpenAI for training AI models on news articles. Many AI tools assimilate and summarize content from news sites, driving users away from primary sources and oftentimes providing incorrect information. Image generation engines like Dall-E and Midjourney have been trained on hundreds of millions images scraped from the internet, leading to lawsuits.
OpenAI has submitted its proposals to the Office of Science and Technology Policy for consideration during the development of a new AI Action Plan that is meant to "make people more productive, more prosperous, and more free." The full text is available on OpenAI's website.
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OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
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I believe this is one of the biggest fights of the 21st century. One that we will look at 30-40 years from now, and think we did this insanity to ourselves. But the China threat is real
Simple. If you want forget copyright exists, you cant patent any tech you publish. Why is your copyright better than mine?
Mr President our company cannot compete with companies in other countries which allow slavery and child labour, to remain competitive and keep our american company great (and hit my bonus milestones) please repeal anti slavery and child labour laws so that we can also operate as profitably efficiently as possible
I ****ing hate chat gpt. Its always wrong and now asks me ****ing questions no matter how many times i tell it not to.
All ai is complete ****. We are ****ed
All ai is complete ****. We are ****ed
🤬 This really pissed me off. I could maybe understand if OpenAI were truly open and not charging for its features — but they’re asking to break the law, steal, and then they want us to pay them for it!
The CEO has to be some kind of idiot…
The CEO has to be some kind of idiot…
There is a difference. Which is why I guess courts are getting involved.
If had the capability to scrape the Internet for data and store it and then have people pay me to reproduce that information, I'm pretty sure I'd be getting sued every which way.
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“private sector relief”…what a load of BS
I, for one, support this!
We all should freely use copyrighted movies and music to "train" personal neural networks between the ears. Gotta compete with China, you know.
Fair is fair.
P.S. Also I'd like to have source code for OpenAI products please, need to compete.
We all should freely use copyrighted movies and music to "train" personal neural networks between the ears. Gotta compete with China, you know.
Fair is fair.
P.S. Also I'd like to have source code for OpenAI products please, need to compete.
This is not true.
The current system is simply setup in a way that investing in financial sector is insanely more profitable that it is in a real sector. This is why the West at large is an economy of providing services/"podcasts" rather than manufacturing goods. The child labor in US is not going to change it unless you change the system to make sure that the real sector is more profitable than any other investment.
People who involved in financial sector right now are truly enjoying an "eternal" life and obviously refusing to give it up until WW3 will essentially eliminate them physically.
So OpenAI believes that authors should not be financially compensated for OpenAI stealing their intellectual property, but OpenAI should be allowed to profit from that theft.
It's sad and pathetic that so many people support billionaires like Scum Altman at the expense of the common man.
No wonder many Silicon Valley oligarchs like Scum Altman (and Tim Crook) donated millions of dollars to Donald Trump's inauguration. They not only want Trump to continue to shift the tax burden from the rich to the working class, but now also want Trump to allow the theft of intellectual property of the non-rich so that billionaire Silicon Valley oligarchs involved in AI can profit even more.
It's sad and pathetic that so many people support billionaires like Scum Altman at the expense of the common man.
No wonder many Silicon Valley oligarchs like Scum Altman (and Tim Crook) donated millions of dollars to Donald Trump's inauguration. They not only want Trump to continue to shift the tax burden from the rich to the working class, but now also want Trump to allow the theft of intellectual property of the non-rich so that billionaire Silicon Valley oligarchs involved in AI can profit even more.
Good! I want American tech oligarchs to lose. They are fascists whose goal is to increase income inequality as much as possible in order to profit as much as possible.
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The other thing to remember is that some of these creators have actually licensed their content for AI training, providing a much-needed extra income source for newspapers that have already been struggling.
This is total hogwash. And as a European, if they infringe on my copyrighted works, I expect to be able to sue them for wilful infringement. They, and the US government, have no power over European copyright law or my rights.
I don't know what to think. on one hand, it feels like maybe openai and also grok and some other llms should be allowed to do this. but then like, on the other hand, i guess its sort of "wrong" in one sense, but in another sense, isn't it kind of for the "greater good" in some way...I mean, grok has access to X, so in a way, maybe openai needs to create its own sort of Twitter/reddit alternative as well maybe. meh.
From the company that complained about the Chinese ai model pilfering from them to train 🎻
The fact that the labor force ever thought it had the upper hand is laughable. Who cuts and signs the paycheck and administers health insurance? That’s who has the upper hand. Don’t be mistaken.
That’s the difference between the US and the EU. The US wants to be first. The EU wants to do it right.
Both have their merits, but this capitalism-and-profits-before-everything-else mentality is getting tiresome.
As Trump is against regulations and is dismantling the EPA to further destroy the environment and people’s health for profit, this request from OpenAI should be a no-brainer. But…. Musk. Let’s see what happens.
Both have their merits, but this capitalism-and-profits-before-everything-else mentality is getting tiresome.
As Trump is against regulations and is dismantling the EPA to further destroy the environment and people’s health for profit, this request from OpenAI should be a no-brainer. But…. Musk. Let’s see what happens.
I don't know how many people want to use an AI/LLM that's been exclusively trained on sources like Twitter/X and Reddit.
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Last time I looked 'OpenAI' was closed source and Deepseek is open source... Maybe if OpenAI wants to 'borrow' for free other peoples intellectual property to train their models they should copy the Chinese and make their source code available for everyone to use.
If US unilaterally allows this, the entire concept of copyright will be immediately thrown out of the window. Why would anyone else respect US intellectual property if the US does not respect theirs?
This didn't came out of nowhere. OpenAI has been using copyrighted materials since inception.
