Get the latest tech news
OpenAI Says It's "Over" If It Can't Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.
Though OpenAI insists that using copyrighted materials will help it "ensure more access to more powerful innovations that deliver even more knowledge," publishers chagrined at their work being fed into AI training data disagree — especially when those models spit out straight-up plagiarized outputs. In the same statement, the AI giant twisted the long-established " fair use doctrine," a legal framework allowing limited access to copyrighted materials without prior permission for quotations in articles and other normal, non-infringing usages. Ironically, OpenAI has, as Ars notes, accused DeepSeek of improperly using its data without permission — a point the company failed to bring up in its policy proposal, probably because it feels embarrassingly hypocritical.
Or read this on Hacker News
