The Lawsuit That Could End The AI Industry
Can we finally hold OpenAI and alike to account?
Generative AI has a bit of a copyright issue. It takes an utterly vast amount of data to train these remarkable programs, too much for an AI company to create in-house. As such, they pirate copyright data from all over the internet, from social media posts, newspapers, books and even YouTube videos. Understandably, many artists and creators are furious at this, as they aren’t being compensated for their work being used in this way, and once these AI models are trained on their work, they can produce crap copies of it on a vast scale, potentially drowning the original artist out. So, how can we stop this deleterious widespread pillaging? Well, a YouTuber may have just found a way, and his lawsuit against these AI companies could actually end the AI industry as we know it.
You may ask how these AI companies can use copyrighted material in the first place. The answer is “fair use.” Fair use is a part of copyright law meant to enable third parties to comment on or analyse copyrighted material. As such, it permits a party to use a copyrighted work without the copyright owner’s permission for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research or transformation into something new. This is how YouTube commentary channels can use copyrighted…
