A new bill rolled out by three American senators is making headwaves as a possible solution to help keep the work of many safeguarded from AI.
For a while now, content writers, artists, singers, journalists, and more have been raising their voices on content theft and how AI is making it hard for them to make a living, not to mention the rise in deepfakes.
The new COPIED Act was put into the public light yesterday. While it’s yet to be enacted, many hope that this is exactly what is needed to ensure credit is given to original sources before it’s too late.
The idea is to ensure transparency to set the right standards and also ensure proper tactics like watermarks and synthetic material detection are made before any makes an attempt to steal and call it one of their own.
This bill would also stop the use of material scrapped off the internet for the sake of training AI models or producing more AI content. As reported by the FTC and State AGs, it’s mentioned how more would gain authority to start getting these guidelines enforced while others who made content through AI illegally would be spotted out.
Many have cried long and hard about how so much material is being copied from the net and tampered with, not to mention removed illegally without attaining consent or giving compensation where due. The law would stop that from happening and make it simpler to take the right entities to the courtroom.
The bill would expand upon other measures including prohibiting deletion and content removal from different apps online including search engines and top social media firms.
A lot of content and media groups have been raising their voices for so long on this matter but now, there is more hope that the latest act will turn into law soon.
This is definitely not the first attempt of its kind made by the Senate to combat the global issues linked to AI and it would certainly not be the last as well. We saw another bill be submitted in April of this year dubbed the Gen AI Copyright Disclosure Act.
This new law would similarly make AI firms list all copyrighted sources inside datasets. The bill has yet to move from the House Committee since it was introduced as mentioned by the Senate records.
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For a while now, content writers, artists, singers, journalists, and more have been raising their voices on content theft and how AI is making it hard for them to make a living, not to mention the rise in deepfakes.
The new COPIED Act was put into the public light yesterday. While it’s yet to be enacted, many hope that this is exactly what is needed to ensure credit is given to original sources before it’s too late.
The idea is to ensure transparency to set the right standards and also ensure proper tactics like watermarks and synthetic material detection are made before any makes an attempt to steal and call it one of their own.
This bill would also stop the use of material scrapped off the internet for the sake of training AI models or producing more AI content. As reported by the FTC and State AGs, it’s mentioned how more would gain authority to start getting these guidelines enforced while others who made content through AI illegally would be spotted out.
Many have cried long and hard about how so much material is being copied from the net and tampered with, not to mention removed illegally without attaining consent or giving compensation where due. The law would stop that from happening and make it simpler to take the right entities to the courtroom.
The bill would expand upon other measures including prohibiting deletion and content removal from different apps online including search engines and top social media firms.
A lot of content and media groups have been raising their voices for so long on this matter but now, there is more hope that the latest act will turn into law soon.
This is definitely not the first attempt of its kind made by the Senate to combat the global issues linked to AI and it would certainly not be the last as well. We saw another bill be submitted in April of this year dubbed the Gen AI Copyright Disclosure Act.
This new law would similarly make AI firms list all copyrighted sources inside datasets. The bill has yet to move from the House Committee since it was introduced as mentioned by the Senate records.
Image: DIW-Aigen
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