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Should artists be paid for training data? OpenAI VP wouldn’t say

Onstage at SXSW, Peter Deng, VP of consumer product at OpenAI, wouldn't say whether artists should be compensated for works used to train GenAI models.

OpenAI and other generative AI vendors argue that fair use, the legal doctrine that allows for the use of copyrighted works to make a secondary creation as long as it’s transformative, shields their practice of scraping public data and using it for training without compensating or even crediting artists. “Training AI models using publicly available internet materials is fair use, as supported by long-standing and widely accepted precedents,” writes the company in a January blog post. A class action lawsuit brought by artists including Grzegorz Rutkowski, known for his work on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, against OpenAI several of its rivals, Midjourney and DeviantArt, is making its way through the courts.

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