Hollywood to Trump: Don't Let OpenAI and Google Train on Our Copyrighted Work

The fight between creators and AI tech titans over copyright law and licensing is heating up. In a letter submitted to the Trump administration's office of science and technology policy on March 15, over 400 actors, writers and directors called for the government to uphold current copyright law. The signatories include Paul McCartney, Guillermo del Toro, Ava Duvernay, Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ayo Edebiri, Chris Rock and Mark Ruffalo. The letter specifically asks the government not to grant fair use exceptions to tech companies training AI. Fair use is a fundamental concept in copyright law that gives folks an exception to use protected content even if they aren't the copyright holder, in limited and specific cases. Previously, AI companies, hungry for human-generated content to train and improve their AI models, have needed to pay publishers and content catalogs for access to that material. A fair use exception would make it easier for tech companies to access content wit ... Read full article.