Mass Media vs. AI

 

Hi all! While the world media is circulating the news about the local victory of the crypto industry over the SEC (I'm talking about the Grayscale decision regarding the Bitcoin-ETF), media companies continue to fight ... with artificial intelligence.

 

The fact is that many information resources, including The New York Times, Reuters, CNN, blocked their sites, restricting access to the content for the GPTBot scanner. It was launched on August 8 this year to optimize the new ChatGPT models by indexing content from websites.

 

AI developers have already begun to receive copyright infringement lawsuits: in July Google was sued over a new privacy policy for collecting data using AI, around the same time several American authors, led by writer Sarah Silverman, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for copyright infringement.

 

Michael Miller, CEO of News Corp Australia media company, was the first to voice the problem saying in April that companies launching AI scans should pay for the content they consume.

 

I wonder what the court will decide? On the one hand, if you publish news on the Internet without requiring readers to pay for it, why can't it be used to test new models of neural networks?

 

Or, for example, you wrote a book and received a fee from the publisher, it becomes publicly available and it's not your business how a particular user will use it. Even when it comes to education: after all, at school or university we studied according to some textbooks and did not pay the authors for each page they read.

 

On the other hand, we are talking about the use of content to form new language models: style, presentation, text structure which may be unique for a particular author.

 

In general, with the development of AI language models the struggle for content has significantly intensified and it seems to me that it will continue for a very long time. 

 

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