As the FTC panel begins https://kvgo.com/ftc/Creative-Economy-and-Generative-AI-October-4-2023 we heard from FTC Commission Slaughter: "... copyright is not the only tool." to protect our labor and works.
Opening remarks from other panelists include thoughts about how to protect the labor and works of creative and other content creators, the need for public policy, and a refocus of the conversation on those affected by, not creating the generative systems.
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Bradley's opening remarks: "I avoid using any proprietary software, but in this case, it is not merely esoteric principle"
"...every consumer deserves the right to examine how their software works, to modify, improve and change it — be it altruistically or commercially."
"For 30 years, our community has created FOSS and made it publicly available. Big Tech, for its part, continues to refuse to share most of its own software in the same way."
"Big Tech claims that the rules, licensing, and legislation that has applied to creative works since the 1800s in the United States are suddenly moot simply because machine learning is, in their view, too important to be bogged down by the licensing choices of human creators of works."
"...every consumer deserves the right to examine how their software works, to modify, improve and change it — be it altruistically or commercially."
"For 30 years, our community has created FOSS and made it publicly available. Big Tech, for its part, continues to refuse to share most of its own software in the same way."
"Big Tech claims that the rules, licensing, and legislation that has applied to creative works since the 1800s in the United States are suddenly moot simply because machine learning is, in their view, too important to be bogged down by the licensing choices of human creators of works."
Question: What kind of insight do you feel like you have now into how your work or likeness is being used by generative AI systems, and what kind of transparency do you feel is needed?
Bradley: "...there is now no question that the body of copylefted FOSS is a huge part of the software-assisted development machine learning systems."
"...there is no reason that Big Tech shouldn't be regulated to make these systems transparent — end to end."
"...the public should have access to the input set, have access to the source code of the software that does the training and generation, and most importantly, access to the source code that does these forms of back-end exclusion..."
Bradley: "...there is now no question that the body of copylefted FOSS is a huge part of the software-assisted development machine learning systems."
"...there is no reason that Big Tech shouldn't be regulated to make these systems transparent — end to end."
"...the public should have access to the input set, have access to the source code of the software that does the training and generation, and most importantly, access to the source code that does these forms of back-end exclusion..."