Ill with annoying IP laws, delaying AI growth, technology titans think everything should be public now

If you live in the European Union, your publications in Meta Platforms will already help feed its extremely hungry AI models. In a Blog post Entitled “Do the more AI work for Europeans” (please hold your eye roll), the company has announced that it will start using public interactions on its platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to train large language models, in the last of the big technological players announcing that your content should belong to them.

According to the publication, publications and comments made by adult users will be submitted to the machine, as well as questions and inquiries that people send in interactions with Meta AI. According to META, scraping all these interactions and using them as a training data “will support better millions of people and businesses in the EU by teaching AI in Meta to understand better and reflects their cultures, languages ​​and history.”

Just as fast as possible: we have anthropologists and ethnographers and linguists who specialize not only in preserving culture, language and history, but also help to context it so that we understand why something matters – something you can’t do because you don’t understand what you feed it. But surely, we can pour all our publications into these black boxes and assume that what spits back is a real and accurate replication Despite his tendency to hallucinate No matter how good the data is, everyone, while funding for actual protection works is evaporated.

Anyway. From next week, META will send notifications to EU users that their publications can be used to train AI. Notifications will include a link to a form in which users can object to their data used for these purposes. The company also reiterated that it would not use private AI training messages.

Meta’s decision to post through the content mill and turn it into LLM Feed is just the worst example of the AI ​​Big Tech Players that set a finger on a scale to say that your contents are not yours. During the weekend, the executive director of the block and the founder of the Twitter Jack Dorsi publishes.Delete the whole IP law” – comment that Elon Musk Answers in accordance withS

It is difficult not to read this statement in the context of current lawsuits between AI companies and IP and copyright holders who are trying to keep their information from the training models (at least without receiving a fee).

Indeed, Durses confirmed that he was at least partly in his mind in the answers in which he took on several people who pointed out that IP helps protect the work of the creators not to be swallowed by AI without compensation. Dorsi insist “There are many bigger models to pay creators” and “all people must have a 100% agency over their data and permits for/output they want to use them” which he firm It was a “very simple model for construction and imposition”. It seems that he may have to build this!

Both Musk and Dorses, of course, used an IP law to protect their own projects. Dorsi insist It’s just a protection against trolls, not something he believes in – and look, there is no doubt that the current IP system has problems and is abused by big players. And Musk has promised that Tesla will not continue after bona fide companies who want to use their technology – although it judge a company To violate the company’s battery patents, but hey, good faith is in the eyes of the patent holder.

Just looks very comfortable that two boys highly invested In AI, it suddenly seems that the system used to protect and build their own empires is no longer necessary when it limits their access to the vital power of AI training.