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Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? | Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system
Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system.
The rights to a vast amount of created material—music, movies, books, art, games, computer software, scholarly articles, just about any cultural product people will pay to consume—are increasingly owned by a small number of large corporations and are not due to expire for a long time. But what Bellos and Montagu are ultimately distressed about isn’t that businesses like Sony are sucking in large sums for the right to play music they didn’t create, or that you and I have to pay to listen to it. The Times claims, for example, that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT, provided results that substantially copied verbatim from the paper’s Wirecutter content, which makes money when readers use its links to sites where they can purchase recommended goods.
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