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Microsoft, the world’s software king, has caused confusion by declaring that all web content is open to extraction for AI training, unless its producer says it can’t.
AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman answered questions about how the information generated by AI over the years comes from the web, and some of this content comes from the open web. However, other information comes from YouTube videos.
Suleyman was asked to justify who would own the intellectual property, who is supposed to derive value from it, and, to put it bluntly, whether AI companies have indeed stolen the world’s intellectual property.
Suleyman said that if this type of content is available on the open web, the social contract that has been binding it since the 1990s is that it is fair use content. Anyone can copy it, recreate it or reproduce it. It is free software, if you will. That is the agreement.
“There’s a separate category where a website or publisher or news organization has explicitly said, ‘Do not scrape or crawl my information for any reason other than to index me so that other people can find this content.’ That’s a gray area, and I think it’s going to play out in court.”
Suleyman said that some people took this information and it will be prosecuted, and rightly so.
“You know, the information economy is about to change dramatically because we’re going to reduce the cost of producing knowledge to zero marginal cost. This is a very hard thing for people to understand, but in 15 or 20 years, we’re going to be producing new scientific and cultural knowledge at almost zero marginal cost. It’s going to be widely available as open source and available to everyone. And I think that’s going to be a real inflection point in the history of our species. Because what are we, collectively, as a human organism, other than an engine of intellectual production? We produce knowledge. Our science makes us better. And so what we really want in the world, I think, are new engines that can supercharge discovery and invention.”