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Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

    • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
      132·
      1 year ago

      No entity on the planet has more money than our governments. It’d be more efficient for a government to fund this than any private company.

      • excral@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Many governments on the planet have less money than some big tech or oil companies. Obviously not those of large industrious nations, but most nations aren’t large and industrious.

        • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Plenty of research shows that each dollar into government programs gets much more returns than private companies. This literally a neolib propaganda talking point.

    • excral@feddit.deEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      There is nothing objectively wrong with your statement. However, we somehow always default to solving that issue by having some dragon hoard enough gold, and there is something objectively wrong with that.

      • Lazz45@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Actually many bills are more of a fabric material now than an actual paper product. Many bills in Europe now are polymer based. Both of which add to the difficulty of counterfeiting

        • rocketeer8015@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          63·
          1 year ago

          Actually most of the money are just 1‘s and 0‘s in a computer, coming into existence from nothing and vanishing into nothing. Fiat money backed by “trust”. As Henry Ford once said:

          It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.