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Discussions on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Ethical and Legal Dimensions
An in-depth examination of artificial intelligence and copyright. Explore the impacts of these modern discussions on creative industries, including their ethical and legal dimensions. Learn about the future of copyright in the age of artificial intelligence.
Discussions on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
Companies developing artificial intelligence are faced with the necessity of finding suitable videos to train these algorithms and ‘show’ them to the AI. However, it is also known that there is an ethical rule requiring copyright payments to video owners and platforms like YouTube or Netflix for downloading these videos.
However, in an internal message from Nvidia, it appears that the company does not pay much attention to this copyright issue. In a message sent to the team developing artificial intelligence, it is stated that they should find and download suitable videos from sources like YouTube and Netflix to train the AI algorithms they are working on. Nvidia does not hide this decision; in a statement to the media, it argues that this action is in line with the ‘right to information’ from open sources. The company states that these videos are public information resources and that acquiring information by watching them is not illegal.
On the other hand, those on the opposing side of this debate argue that these videos are copyrighted content and that creating a new product using them would result in copyright infringement.
Who Will Write History?
This debate is not just a situation exclusive to Nvidia. All other companies developing artificial intelligence are also involved in similar discussions. In fact, there is a highly controversial situation concerning Google’s own AI, Gemini, which is said to create copyright issues for video owners by using videos from its own video service, YouTube, during its development. This issue is not just a legal matter; it also has a moral dimension. The fact that the artificial intelligence services, which will be humanity’s digital assistants in the new century, may copy information from the content we trained them with raises a serious problem about whether the knowledge we pass on to humanity’s future is derived from uncontrolled videos on social media.
Therefore, while those who wrote history in the past were the victors of historical wars, in the future, it seems that history will be written by fraudsters producing clickbait content on YouTube or trolls on Twitter. This situation is indeed becoming alarming.