Australian creatives demand AI companies pay for use of their work in training
A brief opinion piece arguing that tech companies training AI on creative works should pay creators, just as individuals and institutions do to access those works. The article questions why AI companies should be exempt from compensating writers, musicians, and artists when they expect users to pay for their AI products.
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It seems like a naive question, but why should it be any different for the tech companies who are presently helping themselves to whatever material they can get their hands on, so as to train their AI agents?
Particularly if the same tech companies expect users to pay to access their AI products.
Of course all writers, artists, musicians, etc, wherever they are, should be receiving compensation if an
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Australian authors, songwriters, musicians demand payment from AI companies. Everyone else has to pay somehow to access their work, the same goes for tech companies
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