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@ Maria Chiara Pievatolo
2025-02-21 09:36:04
Even if #SALAMI (#AI) had no useful use, threatening the right to read because of it would jeopardize humans' freedom.
We need solutions that address the roots of these problems, like inadequate protections for labor rights and personal privacy. Targeted, issue-specific policies are far more likely to succeed in resolving the problems society faces. Take competition, for example. Proponents of copyright expansion argue that treating AI development like the fair use that it is would only enrich a handful of tech behemoths. But imposing onerous new copyright licensing requirements to train models would lock in the market advantages enjoyed by Big Tech and Big Media—the only companies that own large content libraries or can afford to license enough material to build a deep learning model—profiting entrenched incumbents at the public’s expense. What neither Big Tech nor Big Media will say is that stronger antitrust rules and enforcement would be a much better solution.