I really don't like this--opt-out never works because the scale advantages are backwards. It places the burden in the wrong place. The aggregators should have to get opt-in.
Look at YouTube. Because of "opt-out", lots of people monetize content that they have no right to and it's up to the original author to have to fight the scale of a zillion uploaders. Only the biggest entities can do that.
YouTube (and everybody else) should have to assert "You, the uploader, own this content" when they ingest it. Nothing else works.
I wouldn't mind an exemption for research use, though.
This is a fairly big deal since right now there’s no incentive for AI companies to disclose their training data, and it seems unlikely that legislation to that effect will be enacted anytime soon. Whereas this opt out mechanism is already getting widespread adoption in the EU.
>Look at YouTube. Because of "opt-out", lots of people monetize content that they have no right to and it's up to the original author to have to fight the scale of a zillion uploaders. Only the biggest entities can do that.
>YouTube (and everybody else) should have to assert "You, the uploader, own this content" when they ingest it. Nothing else works.
Thankfully, in a rare turn of fate, capital will be on the side of the laissez-faire instead of the stringent anti-copyright-infringers for once. You do not own the rights to material created by a generative AI.
https://www.notion.so/DSM-Directive-Implementation-Tracker-3...
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj
The TDM4 copyright exception allows datasets to be created consisting of copyrighted works, as long as there is a mechanism for rightsholders to opt out. This seems like the best of both worlds: the dataset is transparent, rightsholders can assert their rights, and certain AI companies can train on copyrighted material.
Of course, this doesn't grant commercial rights for the trained model, only scientific and academic research rights. (I.e. it's fine for Meta to train and release a LLaMA model trained on books, as long as they're not commercially profiting from it, and there's a mechanism for authors to opt out.)
I'm talking with Jordan from https://spawning.ai to try to build some kind of opt out system that makes sense for books. One could imagine doing this for music too.
This is a European law, but unlike other overreaching EU regulations, this one seems like an extremely sensible compromise.