A group of conservative organizations has asked a federal judge not to let AI companies “recklessly crawl the internet” without paying news outlets and other content providers for their work. The result of unlimited “fair use” of copyright materials in AI training would be leftist AI kingpins serving as “our sole provider of news and entertainment.”
\n\nThe New York Post reports that The Center for American Rights, a right-leaning nonprofit law firm focused on tech and telecom policy, filed an amicus brief in the copyright infringement case pitting OpenAI against a coalition of news organizations including the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. The plaintiffs accuse OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, of stealing their content without credit or compensation to train its AI models. OpenAI’s lawyers counter that the practice is protected under the “fair use” doctrine.
\n\nDaniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, wrote the brief. The Article III Project and Internet Accountability Project, both led by Mike Davis, cosigned it, along with the Bull Moose Project, Consumers For A Strong Economy, and conservative lawyer Joel Thayer.
\n\n“If [superintelligence] is permitted to recklessly crawl the internet, even past paywalls, then we’ve effectively stripped these smaller companies…
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