The intersection of AI and copyright-protected material is a fraught place. There you can find lawsuits, deals, acrimony, and even various flavors of the personal-political leading folks to either demand — or dismiss — the idea that training material for AI models deserves to be paid for.
But OpenAI is making its position clear over time, starting to pay more folks and even, TechCrunch reports, building a tool called Media Manager that will allow creators to better control how their content is being used to train generative AI models by giving them the option to opt out. The goal is to have the new tool in place and ready to use by 2025.
Good! That’s a welcome concept, albeit one that many consider a bit late given that OpenAI used lots of copyright-protected media to train its models to-date — and it’s facing copyright lawsuits from The New York Times and other U.S. newspapers. Better late than never? A cynical ploy to ensure that rival companies have a harder journey ahead of them to reach similar technological heights?
Today on the TechCrunch Minute, we dig into what OpenAI has on offer and what it could mean for both the world of creators and AI remixers. Hit play!
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