The matter has triggered impassioned pushback from powerful tech interests who say they must have access to people’s hard work for free, or the future of their industry will be jeopardized.
Big Tech leaders are spending millions of dollars - and pushing dubious national security concerns - to try to prevent federal regulators from forcing them to pay for the copyrighted works their companies are using to train their artificial intelligence (AI) systems.Īt issue is a new effort by the US Copyright Office to consider how to apply US copyright law to the nascent AI industry.
