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Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic hits out at copyright lawsuit filed by music publishing corporations, claiming the content ingested into its models falls under ‘fair use’ and that any licensing regime created to manage its use of copyrighted material in training data would be too complex and costly to work in practice

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  • Mr PoopyButthole@lemm.eeEnglish
    322·
    10 months ago

    I keep thinking how great it would be if the federal government made a central server system to access digital content for free via taxes.

    All public domain and publicly funded research and content, all in one place. Could also host owned content for people/entities and pay out royalties automatically based on consumption.

    There are ways to make this fairly affordable to everyone via taxes, but maybe the big opportunity is it could also allow companies to train AI on all the data for a fat, but fair subscription. The value of that could easily pay for enough to shrink any tax costs for the public.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      162·
      10 months ago

      In general, if the US government were smart (and not currently tearing itself apart) it would be creating a generative AI public service like the postal service, potentially even relying on public government documents and the library system for training.

      Offer it at effectively cost for the public to use. Would drive innovation and development, nothing produced by it would be copyrightable, and it would put pressure on private options to compete against it.

      We can still have the FedEx or DHL of gen AI out there, but they would need to contend with the public option being cheaper and more widely available for use.

      • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        In addition to the US government actually needing to do work, the senators would need to understand how to turn a computer on and off.

      • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
        22·
        10 months ago

        So the government gets to ignore copyright, but nobody else?

        No thanks.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, but the attempts to kill off the USPS have been surprisingly bi-partisan

        I literally don’t think the US will ever see a new socialized industry ever happen

        Edited for clarity, to make it more obvious I’m not blaming just one party for this