Openai and Google demand government exemption from training their AI models with copyrighted materials
Openai calls on the Trump administration to grant AI companies exemptions to train their models with copyrighted materials. Discovered in a blog post edgeThe company released this week its response to President Trump’s AI action plan. The initiative announced in late February that the White House sought private enterprises’ opinions and ultimately developed a policy that would help “enhance the U.S. as a powerful AI” and enable innovation in the industry.
“For a long time, the strong, balanced intellectual property system in the United States has been the key to our global innovative leadership. We propose a copyright strategy that will extend the role of the system into the intelligence era by protecting the rights and interests of content creators, while also protecting the rights and interests of U.S. AI leadership and national security.” “The federal government can both ensure Americans’ freedom to learn from AI and avoid losing our AI, resulting in [People’s Republic of China] The ability to learn from copyrighted materials by retaining the US AI model. ”
In the same document, the company recommended that the United States maintain strict export controls on AI chips. It also said that the U.S. government should adopt AI tools widely. By the way, Openai began offering a version of ChatGpt for use for the U.S. government earlier this year.
This week, Google also released its own list of recommendations for the president’s AI action plan. Like Openai, the search giant says it should be able to train AI models on copyrighted materials.
“Balanced copyright rules, such as fair use and text and data mining exceptions, are crucial to enabling AI systems to learn from prior knowledge and publicly available data, freeing up scientific and social progress,” Google wrote. “These exceptions allow AI training using copyrighted public materials without significantly affecting the right shell, and avoid highly unpredictable, unbalanced and lengthy negotiations with data holders during model development or scientific experiments.”
Last year, Openai said, “It is impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyright-protected materials.” The company is currently facing numerous lawsuits accusing its copyright infringement, including those involving The New York Times and a group of writers led by George RR Martin and Jonathan Franzen. Meanwhile, the company recently accused Chinese AI startups of trying to replicate their technology.
