“Unlocking Hidden Potential: How AI’s Overlooked Role in Content Creation Could Transform the Future”
Conclusion
Publishers of quality, valuable materials now have every incentive to restrict access to their materials and a justified suspicion of the AI industry. Publishers control massive pools of high-quality validated content not available on the open web. This can be used to train AI. The barrier to AI advancement is not the lack of content or rights reservation, but the unwillingness of (some in) tech to pay a fair share to use it.
As noted by the NY Times in the first article:
[T]here’s also a lesson here for big A.I. companies, who have treated the internet as an all-you-can-eat data buffet for years, without giving the owners of that data much of value in return. Eventually, if you take advantage of the web, the web will start shutting its doors.
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