- Nick Clegg, former Meta executive and UK Deputy Prime Minister, has reiterated a familiar line when it comes to AI and artist consent.
- He said that any push for consent would “basically kill” the AI industry.
- Clegg added that the sheer volume of data that AI is trained on makes it “implausible” to ask for consent.
Makes sense. Paying for all those services would kill my ability to support other industries. Fair game.
I’m not pirating, I’m training the LLM that is in my skull. Don’t worry, I won’t remember the whole thing in a week and won’t use it to create art out of what I saw.
All big tech companies and the law agrees: pirating data to use as input data for intelligence is not piracy. There is finally an answer to the letters sent out by isps.