🔗 linkblog: OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use'

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

date linked: 13 March 2025

source: link to article, from arstechnica.com

I believe that scraping the internet to profit off of generative AI is ethically problematic BUT I concede that it should be fair use BUT this is still a soulless and terrible argument.

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I have lots of concerns about LLM training, but I think it’s better to think of the issue in terms of digital labor, not copyright. My blog is licensed for reuse, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exploitative for someone to scrape it all to develop software that will make them rich off my work.

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