Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?
“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression—including blogposts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents—it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,” wrote OpenAI in the House of Lords submission.
OpenAI claimed that the authors in that lawsuit “misconceive[d] the scope of copyright, failing to take into account the limitations and exceptions (including fair use) that properly leave room for innovations like the large language models now at the forefront of artificial intelligence.”
The difference many people seem to miss is that artists aren’t robots and ChatGPT isn’t human. ChatGPT does not learn like humans, does not store memory like humans, and does not reproduce work like humans, so treating the two equivalently is insane.
Just like there’s a big difference between me retelling Lord of the Rings and copy/pasting
LotR-ebook-NoViRusVerified.rar, there’s a big difference between an artist and AI. That will remain the case until we develop sentient AI, at which point copyright is the least of our concerns.