How AI models Steal Creative Work

[Cpvr]

Generative AI is built on three key resources: people, compute and data. While companies invest heavily in the first two, they often use unlicensed creative work as training data without permission or payment — a practice that pits AI against the very creators it relies on. AI expert Ed Newton-Rex has a solution: licensing. He unpacks the dark side of today's AI models and outlines a plan to ensure that both AI companies and creators can thrive together. (Recorded at TEDAI San Francisco on October 22, 2024)

 

[Ravenfreak]

Will this practice actually come to light though? I hope there's some companies out there who are hiring artists to create pieces and are getting paid for it.

 

[CTS]

Thank you much as I have been preaching this for some time.
I like that it was on TED.

 

[CTS]

Since I have been a bad boy against AI training, and after watching the TED video (which I loved), I did a little research on the subject. I found an interesting article with a suggested copyright addition that (should) help against non-attributing content scrapers.

https://authorsguild.org/news/practical-tips-for-authors-to-protect-against-ai-use-ai-copyright-notice-and-web-crawlers/

The suggested statement is:

NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s [and publisher’s] exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.

I have injected that statement into my terms and rules page for whatever it is worth. Since it is impossible to stop all of them, at least it gives a legal statement of intent.

Any thoughts on this?