Forcing AI Companies to Respect Copyright Would “Kill the Industry”

That sentiment echoes OpenAI’s recent proposal submitted to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where they openly admitted that without having unrestricted access to data, their generative models cannot exist.

In the write-up’s section on copyright, OpenAI declared that “if the PRC’s developers have unfettered access to data and American companies are left without fair use access, the race for AI is effectively over. America loses, as does the success of democratic AI.”…