Mathew Carr

AI is completely ripping off the world’s entire creative industry; lawmakers fail again (3)

by Mathew Carr

It is shocking how the world’s feckless politicians are siding with thieving billionaire AI moguls.

It’s “complete nonsense” to assume AI companies can steal content, pictures and stories to train their models … without paying fair compensation, according to one senior observer of what’s going on in the AI proposal submitted by the Labour government of Keir Starmer.

Labour is meant to protect the people against the billionaires. Otherwise, what is the use of it?

The AI companies know they are stealing, the observer told me, reluctant to say it publicly at such a sensitive time.

The AI companies will incur a massive legal liability if they scrape copyrighted websites without asking for permission. Starmer’s government is wrongly proposing that this is fine as long as creatives don’t object in advance.

Yet we creatives don’t need to object. The law already protects us.

Of course we freaking object.

Photographers, models, filmmakers, writers all object.

Starmer’s AI proposal is effectively proposing that AI companies be exempt from the law “thou shalt not steal”.

It’s like Starmer proposing a law that said. “It’s OK for the people to steal from billionaire mansions.”

Imagine that! Now that’s something the billionaire-loving political class would quickly object to.

Websites only need one copyright warning to protect the whole website. Even this should not be needed. Where is the basic human decency?

Don’t steal other people’s stuff!!!

If AI models proceed to steal…they are open to massive financial liabilities running into trillions of USD over the next two decades, according to a calculation and survey of people familiar with the situation by CarrZee.org.

This scraping is clearly a breach of copyright law, a notion backed today by speakers at a National Union of Journalists event on AI and ethics.

That Donald Trump’s new government is rushing to screw creatives via a $500 billion deal is wrong and his endorsed plan needs to be examined and probably stopped.

If China’s companies have already stolen to train large language models…they too should be held to account.

Further, AI companies should have strict climate-protection regulations applied to prevent huge increases in GHG.

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ChatGPT SHOWING SOME HONOUR IN DESCRIBING ITS OWN BEHAVIOUR , above

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