“Unlocking the Future: How AI Rights Could Rewrite the Rules of Humanity According to Visionary Babis Marmanis”
Critically, Babis was willing to answer my questions.
It always struck me as odd that the EU specified that the “machine readable” in the context of a TDM exception which allows, for want of a better phrase, “machine reading.” What do you think of this?
Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language. It is prudent best practice to reserve rights by whatever reasonable technological means are available and in human readable language, but this does not negate the fact that human readable is machine readable. Frankly, if we can build systems that can pass the Turing test, a simple statement in plain language on the website should suffice for the crawler to detect whether the content should be processed or not.
