The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing regarding the AI industry's use of copyrighted materials for model training. Senator Josh Hawley labeled this practice as the largest intellectual property theft in U.S. history. He noted that generative AI companies like Meta use pirated works and highlighted the legal implications discussed in a pending case. Hawley criticized AI companies for prioritizing profit over intellectual property rights and argued against using technological advancement as a justification for their actions.
If the answer is that the biggest corporation in the world worth trillions of dollars can come take an individual author's work like Mr. Baldacci, lie about it, hide it, profit off of it, and there's nothing our law does about that, we need to change the law.
AI companies are training their models on stolen materials and have copied enough works to fill 22 Libraries of Congress.
Meta's conduct is not an exception, it's the rule in the AI space. Do whatever you want and count on lawyers and lobbyists to fix it later.
When they say, 'we can't let China beat us,' what they're really saying is 'give us truckloads of cash and let us steal everything from you and make billions on it.'
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