An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
Can we please not empower copyright to such silly extent? Copyright is already utter garbage and some want to extend to tweets, comments and whatnot.
Also, AI is copying the same way we copy everything - by learning. So we shouldn’t be allowed to quote and refer to stuff we learn about online? In no way this argument makes sense - down with the copyright.
That’s not empowering copyright. That’s literally how it works. Copyright is automatic, and if you do not have a prior agreement assigning copyright it is awarded to the person who created said content, be it a tweet, blog post, etc.
If I make a blog post and google scrapes the data and uses that day for profit, that’s copyright infringement, unless they can prove fair use, which has narrow definitions that training an AI for profit purposes definitely doesn’t fall under
I dread reality you’re describing where every bit of information is propriatory. I think the world is a better place with free information. What you’re describing sounds whole lot like throwing the baby out with the bath water - just because big tech corporations are “bad”.
I mean you can dread it all you want, because that is LITERALLY how it works today. Google, OpenAI and Microsoft already have multiple lawsuits for stealing people’s copyrights to train their LLMs.
Copyright is assigned automatically. If I make a blog post, that is automatically my copyrighted material. As the creator I get to choose how it’s used, not Google
If I took some proprietary Google code and used it without permission you know damn well they would sue my ass into oblivion. Copyright has to protect the small as well as the giant.
