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@drahardja I think the key difference vs search engines is there's some mutual benefit there - they give you traffic in exchange for serving ads around links to your content.
With AI there's no mutual benefit for the creators. In fact, it's worse than that - it's also threatening the creators' livelihoods.
Obligatory "I'm not a lawyer though" - so I'm not sure how best to translate this into law. Consent feels like a good starting point though. For a start, robots.txt rules must be enforced.
@drahardja Yep and also - it's not just creatives who use the word "steal" in relation to AI training on their content. Eric Schmidt said the same in a behind-closed-doors lecture:
"Schmidt told the students to go ahead and download whatever they need... If the product takes off, “then you hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up,” he said. “If nobody uses your product, then it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content.”"
Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
