New York Times Sues Microsoft and OpenAI - Will Attributions Come To AI Systems?
Yes I know it's there in Bing and Bard, but most people use ChatGPT, I personally find myself asking ChatGPT the same shit I've already asked Bing.
Yeah, I know how that sounds.
This generation is really serious about data theft.
Sorry, let me rephrase that:
This Generation Is Really Out To Get Money!
New York Times suing over copyright? Lmao, look through the web, I'm pretty sure you'd find not less than 100 different websites that are infringing their content all the time, why aren't they going after them?
Don't worry, I'll answer that:
Because those ones don't have enough dough.
It's really that simple.
~ Not rich and infringing? Not worth anybody’s attention.
~ Rich and infringing? Seems you like giving away free billions so here's a lawsuit.
The New York Times
on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, creator of the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the companies of copyright infringement and abusing the newspaper’s intellectual property to train large language models.
The publisher said in a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that it seeks to hold Microsoft and OpenAI to account for the “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” it believes it is owed for the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”
In its suit, the Times said Microsoft and OpenAI’s GPT models “directly compete with Times content.”
The AI models also limited the Times’ commercial opportunities by altering its content. For example, the publisher alleges GPT outputs remove links to products featured in its Wirecutter app, a product reviews platform, “thereby depriving The Times of the opportunity to receive referral revenue and appropriating that opportunity for Defendants.”
What's the major focus of this lawsuit?
~ ChatGPT steals content.
~ ChatGPT plagiarizes the content.
~ ChatGPT distributes content both in original state and plagiarized state.
~ ChatGPT steals potential users/customers.
~ ChatGPT causes loss of consumer data and revenue.
~ Microsoft enables this via direct investments and cloud services.
Well, this is all true, one of it's biggest ways of attaining data may include the way back machine or as also known: The Internet Acheive - given that this database spans through losts of content types and typically has copies of several web pages that may be paywalled or deleted.
This is a crime because at the end of the data, ChatGPT is monetizing these materials!
The Rise Of Attributions In GenAI
Words in town is that this is in works for ChatGPT specifically as it had not been present but will this cut? And how will users feel about it?
I expect mixed reactions, it's all going to be back to the regular - so I guess all hope is not lost for publishers and writers - AI systems should start linking back to you.
This could be a good thing in that traffic could be more widely distributed across websites with actual valuable information to give.
But at the same time, this could bring about concentration of traffic because big publishing platforms may attempt to play it all done their channel and that could lead to information censorship and spread of false data.
That are really many variables.
That said, the cost of running and accessing AI systems may experience a spike.
Because many publishers will demand a cut of the revenue ChatGPT generates - attributions may not be enough.
Will the AI begin to run ads?
That would mean intensive transfer of data back and forth from AI systems to Ad systems.
At the end of the day, I really don't see ChatGPT or any such AI system winning this one.
Remember when I said blockchain nodes should limit autonomous access to on-chain data?
It's important some of these things are implemented. Data is the new currency, if you want to do charity with yours, you clearly don't value your time spent to create them.
On a blockchain like Hive, this could be intrinsically built to reward creators of this data.
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