David Wong, CPO of Thomson Reuters, makes an amazing point in a Silicon Republic article recently out. The Tl;dr version is that if copyright is removed, or does not protect a created work, then the only way creators will be able to protect them is to put everything behind a paywall. AI companies will then have no data to scraped because it won’t be “publicly accessible” anymore. It is both a very simple, and a very valid argument. I am curious to see how it pans out, but also, this is what creators should argue, and what AI companies should listen to.
PS Gen AI art “representing the idea that ‘AI companies need copyright law'” brought to you by “still not the best at the creative side of things, who would’ve thunk.” And #ClipArt #90sGraphics
