The tech industry can't agree on what open source AI means. That's a problem.
The tech industry can’t agree on what open source AI means. That’s a problem.
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The tech industry can’t agree on what open source AI means. That’s a problem.
News organizations The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet have joined the growing number of organizations suing OpenAI for copyright infringement.
In the high-stakes world of AI, "The fundamental agreement behind robots.txt [files], and the web as a whole — which for so long amounted to 'everybody just be cool' — may not be able to keep up..." argues the Verge: For many publishers and platforms, having their data crawled for train...
The News/Media Alliance has produced a White Paper, “How the Pervasive Copying of Expressive Works to Train And Fuel Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems Is Copyright Infringement and Not a Fair Use.”
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.