Today the House of Lords has published an report on their inquiry into #AI and its impact on copyright and the creative industries, which lists some very sensible reasons why AI needs to be better regulated 🤖

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Today the House of Lords has published an report on their inquiry into #AI and its impact on copyright and the creative industries, which lists some very sensible reasons why AI needs to be better regulated

This relates closely to what I said on @BBCNews 2 weeks ago, that the House of Lords has consistently raised concerns about creative imagery being devalued and used by AI models for free in bills, yet somehow these bills disappear into nothing when they get to Parliament

Full report: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldcomm/267/267.pdf

TL;DR in short, they found that:

The answers produced by AI are not based on it learning anything, and thus shouldn’t be treated as such

Gov UK needs to strengthen licensing, transparency & enforcement of copyright law, not weaken it

Gov UK's mixed messaging regarding AI is creating big problems, including undermining investment

Gov UK needs to issue a "clear public statement" that commercial AI developers need to obtain licences in order to use copyrighted works to train AI models

My analysis ️:

For some very strange reason, we don’t seem to value imagery, which makes no sense given copyright laws today.

The datasets used to train AI clearly need to be legislated. The reason that images were used to train AI models in the first place was to enable the AI to be able to differentiate different objects in a photo - i.e. to understand the difference between a car, a tree, a child, the grass in the background and the sky.

But AI models were never meant to replace creativity, art, design and illustration industries, the film industry, video games etc. All of these things are licensed and copyrighted. So why is nobody doing anything?

Why are we allowing computer algorithms to replace human expression when we have always enforced IP on human-created materials?

All governments should enforce legislation on the datasets being used to train the AI and I predict that firms in these industries and multiple other affected industries relating to text IP will eventually cobble together and sue these tech giants.

Because the alternative literally doesn’t make any sense.

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