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"One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative
AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of
copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down
more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves
confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones like Google and
Microsoft, and newer ones like OpenAI – that want to overturn the previous
norms of using copyright material. In particular, the latter group want to
train their AI systems on huge quantities of text, images, videos and sounds.
As
Walled Culture has reported, this has led to a spate of lawsuits from the
copyright world, desperate to retain their control over digital material. They
have framed this as an act of solidarity with the poor exploited creators. It’s
a shrewd move, and one that seems to be gaining traction. Lots of writers and
artists think they are being robbed of something by Big AI, even though that
view is based on a misunderstanding of how generative AI works. However, in the
light of stories like one in
The Bookseller, they might want to reconsider
their views about who exactly is being evil here:
Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33
million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not
giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from.
As to whether authors would share in that bounty:
A spokesperson confirmed that Wiley authors are set to receive remuneration
for the licensing of their work based on their “contractual terms”.
That might mean they get nothing, if there is no explicit clause in their
contract about sharing AI licensing income."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
