How to Fix “AI’s Original Sin” – O’Reilly
June 26, 2024
But it seems less important to get into the fine points of copyright law and arguments over liability for infringement, and instead to explore the political economy of copyrighted content in the emerging world of AI services: Who will get what, and why? And rather than asking who has the market power to win the tug of war, we should be asking, What institutions and business models are needed to allocate the value that is created by the “generative AI supply chain” in proportion to the role that various parties play in creating it? And how do we create a virtuous circle of ongoing value creation, an ecosystem in which everyone benefits?
Few people have helped shaped the technology landscape like Tim O’Reilly. For decades O’Reilly Publishing which he founded has published among the most trusted books for developers and technologists.
This very detailed essay considers one of the more subtle but pressing challenges of large language models–how to fairly address the question of compensation for the value the data they are trained on-from blog posts to books, movies to music, and more.
