Over the second weekend of May, Donald Trump sacked the head of the US Copyright Office. On the previous Friday, the office had released “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training”. For the “tech bros”, who had spent so much on bringing Trump to power, this report was a declaration of war: it cast doubt on the viability of the “fair use” defence, upon which Open AI, Meta and other tech companies rely for the unrestricted right to “scrape” online data when training their models.
在5月的第二個週末，唐納•川普(Donald Trump)解僱了美國版權局(US Copyright Office)局長。就上一個週五，該局發佈了《版權與人工智慧3：生成式人工智慧訓練》(Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training”)。對於那些在川普上臺過程中投入巨資的「科技大佬」們來說，這份報告無異於宣戰：它對「合理使用」抗辯的可行性提出了質疑，而OpenAI、Meta等科技公司正是依賴這一抗辯來爲其在訓練模型時不受限制地「抓取」網路數據辯護。