Interesting article I read today about how the UK government is looking to change around the use of creative content without authors permission unless they choose to opt out.
The full article is below but in short it sets out these approaches and goals. https://newsmediauk.org/make-it-fair/
Proposal
The Government’s proposal is to change the laws to favour tech platforms, allowing them to use content without permission or payment unless the authors / creators specifically opt out.
Concerns
Creator and authors are challenging this arguing that this shifts the burden onto them. They believe that tech companies pay for using their content and training models based on their content.
They are urging the government to enforce copyright laws to ensure fair compensation for creators, securing the future of creativity and AI but in a way that protects the authors and creators of content.
The article calls for UK people to back this plan urging the UK government to enforce copyright laws to ensure fair compensation for creators and authors.
Where do you stand?
This is a tricky one for me as today, I feel most content LLMs are trained on are US based data sources and I would love to see more content based on UK data (after all I am British). At the same point, if a levvy is introduced and royalties paid a model for recouping costs is needed which may lead to this content being excluded in LLM training. This could lead to more bias and still leave them “out of pocket”.
Welcome your thoughts?