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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🤖 No free lunch for the bot. In a new letter to the Trump administration, alt-right political strategist Steve Bannon and a group of conservative thought leaders are calling to regulate artificial intelligence applications’ use of copyrighted materials. Big Tech has been “aggressively” lobbying governments against intellectual property rights, arguing that it’s “impossible” to train its AI models without unrestricted fair use of copyrighted data. Bannon and others, however, argue that “it is absurd to suggest that licensing copyrighted content is a financial hindrance to a $20 trillion industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year… We must compete and win the global AI race the American way — by ensuring we protect creators, children, conservatives, and communities.”
