Did you know US Government Urged to Force Big Tech To Pay for Content Taken to Run AI Products
Mainstream media giants are urging the US Government to make Big Tech pay for the material it takes to run AI products.
A
host of publishers based in the News/Media Alliance were seen calling
on the American Government to make Big Tech pay for material it took
from them without payment. These publishers, including the likes of The
Guardian, New York Times, and many others who rolled out a campaign to
express complaints.
The new initiative called Support Responsible AI
accused Big Tech of taking others’ creative work to design AI products
without offering any form of compensation to the creators. The home page
of Support Responsible AI is urging the government to stop Big Tech
from stealing, as it’s unethical.
The fact that they use others’ content to fuel their own AI drives is
causing serious resentment in the media world, as they are the ones who
make the country great. This latest advertising campaign entails a lot
of headlining banners in red and white featuring phrases that hit a
chord with many. They include protection of jobs from AI theft, AI
steals from you too, and keep a lookout for AI.
You can expect
to see hundreds of these banners rolling out on the streets in the US as
well as online. So in essence, the campaign is requesting three main
things. The first has to do with forcing Big Tech and AI firms to
compensate all content creators, make the matter transparent, including
attributing AI materials, and also stopping Big Tech from using its
might to take part in unlawful practices.
The news comes just days after we saw AI giant OpenAI rollout a new picture generation tool. It went viral in no time for producing pictures in the theme of popular animation studio from Japan, dubbed Studio Ghibli, not to mention the feature of producing fake receipts.
The matter really made a lot of people upset, including graphic designers on the X app who feel it’s very anti-AI behavior. We saw more people leave the app in 2024 when X chose to train its AI using posts from users. So as you can tell, the matter is a debatable one and people aren’t willing to let it go too easily this time around.