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In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
Op-ed: As AI outputs flood the Internet, diverse human perspectives are our most valuable resource.
For example, in 2023, imaging giant Adobe took an unusual step by training its Firefly AI models solely on licensed stock photos and public domain works, demonstrating that alternative approaches are possible. OpenAI has argued that this type of scraping constitutes " fair use" and effectively claims that competitive AI models at current performance levels cannot be developed without relying on unlicensed training data, despite Adobe's alternative approach. Wikimedia's experience provides clear evidence of current costs: AI crawlers caused a documented 50 percent bandwidth surge, forcing the nonprofit to divert limited resources to defensive measures rather than to its core mission of knowledge sharing.
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