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Well... Yeah? How did everyone think it worked? How do you think it could work without that?
OpenAI says it's impossible to create useful AI models without copyrighted material
Good riddance, then just don't.
Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian's jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.
All the AI race has done is surface the long standing issue of how broken copyright is for the online internet era. Artists should be compensated but trying to do that using the traditional model which was originally designed with physical, non infinitely copyable goods in mind is just asinine.
One such model could be to make the copyright owner automatically assigned by first upload on any platform that supports the API. An API provided and enforced by the US copyright office. A percentage of the end use case can be paid back as royalties. I haven't really thought out this model much further than this.
Machine learning is here to say and is a useful tool that can be used for good and evil things alike.
Nah. Copyright is broken, but it's broken because it lasts too long, and it can be held by constructs. People should still reserve the right to not have the things they've made incorporated into projects or products they don't want to be associated with.
The right to refusal is important. Consent is important. The default permission should not be shifted to "yes" in anybody's mind.
The fact that a not insignificant number of people seem to think the only issue here is money points to some pretty fucking entitled views among the would-be-billionaires.