A number of writers in the United States have jointly submitted a letter asking AI to compensate the author when using copyrighted content to generate works.
CTOnews.com, July 19 (Xinhua)-- nearly 8000 writers have signed an open letter jointly signed by the New York authors Association (Authors Guild), according to actionnetwork. They require companies involved in generative AI, such as OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Stability AI, and IBM, to obtain the consent of writers, give financial compensation to the original authors and recognize the value of their works when using copyrighted content training models.
Writers such as ▲ Picture Source actionnetwork believe that the reason why AI is able to generate all kinds of articles is mainly due to their works. AI uses a large number of authors' works when training models, so AI is able to "create articles by imitating human languages, stories, styles and ideas." AI feeds these AI systems with millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays and poems. But did not pay half a cent to the original author.
Therefore, these writers called on Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, to allocate some funds to compensate writers fairly while spending billions of dollars to develop AI technology, because without the contribution of writers to provide various training materials, AI would not be able to do what it is today.
In addition, writers also believe that when the market is full of books, stories and news written by AI, it will threaten their careers. Over the past decade, the income of writers has fallen by 40%. Last year, the median income of full-time writers was only $23000. With the popularity of AI, it will be more difficult for these writers to make a living.
▲ source actionnetworkCTOnews.com collates and summarizes the requirements of the open letter as follows:
When training the generative AI model, if you use copyright content, you need to obtain the consent of the writer.
To provide reasonable and fair compensation for writers whose works are used in AI training.
