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OpenAI’s deals with publishers could spell trouble for rivals
OpenAI continues to ink deals with publishers -- a welcome development for those publishers, no doubt. But is this edging out the AI startup competition?
But as Hunter Walk, a partner at Homebrew and the co-founder of Screendoor, recently mused, it’s substantial enough to potentially edge out AI rivals also pursuing licensing agreements. [I]f experimentation is gated by nine figures worth of licensing deals, we are doing a disservice to innovation … The checks being cut to ‘owners’ of training data are creating a huge barrier to entry for challengers. He advocates for a regulator-imposed “safe harbor” that’d protect any AI vendor — as well as small-time startups and researchers — from legal liability so long as they abide by certain transparency and ethical standards.
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