News Review - This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

Data is undoubtedly the new gold, especially in this generative AI era, However, where that gold is heading is worth noticing. While the creator provides nutrients for the AI model training and faces foreseeable threats of job replacement, they are hardly invited to hold an equitable share of the interest.

Hence, efforts to protect individual creators’ copyrights against unauthorized “theft” like Calliope Networks’ AI data licensing project and ProRata’s AI-per-use business model should be applauded. The creators should be granted more legal control of their work instead of being exploited by big platforms like Reddit to foster a sustainable innovative environment. After all, “AI should enhance human creativity, not replace it”.

However, given that the capability of the AI model largely depends on the quality of the original datasets, we should also be wary that tech giants could monopolize the high-quality datasets with whopping capital and smash AI startups that could only afford mediocre open datasets. Building an inclusive environment that allows small AI companies to grow legally and avoiding tech-giant taking all remains a subject worth exploring.

News Link: https://www.wired.com/story/license-to-scrape-youtube-ai-data-license-creators/

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