In the past few months, copyright holders have filed multiple infringement lawsuits against OpenAI and its main investor Microsoft. In an interview, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said that machine learning companies can crawl most online content and use it to train neural networks because this content is essentially “free software.” He said that for content that is already on the open Web, its social contract since the 1990s has been fair use, and anyone can copy, recreate, and remake it. They are free software. AI companies such as OpenAI are signing content agreements with major copyright holders. In other words, for ordinary people who post content on the Internet, unless they have lawyers who can challenge Microsoft or bring Microsoft to the negotiating table, the content they create is “free software.” Suleyman predicts that the cost of producing knowledge will drop to zero marginal cost, and the economics of information will change fundamentally.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/microsoft_ceo_ai/
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