From the course: Using Generative AI Ethically at Work
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Understand hard truths about generative AI
From the course: Using Generative AI Ethically at Work
Understand hard truths about generative AI
- In mid 2023, comedian Sarah Silverman launched a lawsuit against two big tech companies, alleging they had used her books to train AI systems. Silverman was not alone. AI vendors are facing numerous copyright lawsuits involving the data used in training AI. AI vendors claim this is fair use, serving the bigger public interest. We talked about that in our discussion of copyright earlier in the course. Yet beyond the legalities, there are ethical questions. There are already stories about AI running out of training data, which speaks to just how much data is needed to train these massive systems. This is clearly different in scale from the traditional ideas of fair use, such as quoting a line or two from someone's book. To have your life's work be used this way and to not be compensated is a big deal. A point that 1000s of authors guild members have made in an open letter. And it's not just text, it's software code, images, audio, video. Basically, every type of digital content is…
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