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Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches?

—The Guardian

This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.

More seriously, this is typical not just of the nascent AI industry, but of tech in general.  

To quote Mark Zuckerberg wehn he wasd told that Facebook users were handing over their personal data, "They 'trust me' ……… Dumb f%$#s."

Clearly the law and regulations need to catch up with this new business, but the solution to this problem is actually fairly straight forward, we need to terminate their subsidies.

I know what you are thinking right now, "What subsidies?"

To which I respond, the Government uses the full force of the law to extract money from society and give it to these businesses.

This tool is IP, both patent and copyright.

If AI and their data sets are not granted exclusive licenses to their data-sets, algorithms, and software, their business plans vanish, and the profit motive vanishes, and the impetus to bend or break the rules vanishes.

Needless to say, the non-profit academic and scientific motivations remains, but the motivation for abusive and deceptive practices is much smaller:

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems can help you escape a parking fine, write an academic essay, or fool you into believing Pope Francis is a fashionista. But the virtual libraries behind this breathtaking technology are vast – and there are concerns they are operating in breach of personal data and copyright laws.

The enormous datasets used to train the latest generation of these AI systems, like those behind ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, are likely to contain billions of images scraped from the internet, millions of pirated ebooks, the entire proceedings of 16 years of the European parliament and the whole of English-language Wikipedia.

But the industry’s voracious appetite for big data is starting to cause problems, as regulators and courts around the world crack down on researchers hoovering up content without consent or notice. In response, AI labs are fighting to keep their datasets secret, or even daring regulators to push the issue.

Until this sorts out, pull IP protections.  That will keep would-be Zuckerbergs from creating the next monstrous blight upon society.