At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

At a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers backed media industry calls to make OpenAI and other tech companies pay to license news articles and other data used to train algorithms.

  • Motavader@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    10 months ago

    Yes, and they’ll use legislation to pull up the ladder behind them. It’s a form of Regulatory Capture, and it will absolutely lock out small players.

    But there are open source AI training datasets, but the question is whether LLMs can be trained as accurately with them.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      These open datasets are used to fine-tune LLMs for specific tasks. But first, LLMS have to learn the basics by being trained on vast amounts of text. At present, there is no chance to do that with open source.

      If fair use is cut down, you can forget about it. It would arguably be unconstitutional, though.

      That’s not even considering the dystopian wishes to expand copyright even further. Some people demand that the model owner should also own the output. Well, some of these open datasets are made with LLMs like ChatGPT.

      • wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        If fair use is cut down…

        It’s not a case of cutting down fair use. It’s a case 9f enforcing current fair use limits.

        • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          Can you give an example of something that is outside fair use?

          Just in case, there is confusion here: Obviously there is no past precedent on exactly the new circumstances, but that does not put new technologies outside the law. EG the freedom of speech and the press apply to the internet, even though there is no printing press involved.