Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out
The tech company’s latest proposal about generative AI turns copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts
When asked how such a system would work, a spokesperson pointed to a recent blog post by Google
https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-web-publisher-controls-sign-up/
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If the argument is that other writers' content is just a bunch of words, then AI wouldn't need to "mine" anything more than a comprehensive dictionary.
If, however, there is something special in the order and pattern of the words that authors create which can then be "mined" by large language models, then isn't that exactly the kind of creative expression which copyright is supposed to protect?
@ecksmc: As my from coworker Keith Gamble said many, many years ago, "Greedy mothers."