TLDR:
- Tech lobby group Chamber of Progress launches “Generate and Create” campaign to defend the legality of using copyrighted works to train AI systems.
- Campaign aims to highlight how AI enhances creative output and lowers barriers for producing art, defending fair use under copyright law.
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Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition consisting of companies like Amazon, Apple, and Meta, is launching a campaign called “Generate and Create” to defend the legal use of copyrighted materials for training AI systems.
The campaign seeks to showcase how AI can enhance creativity and reduce barriers in art production by defending the principle of fair use under copyright law. This initiative is crucial in an environment where the legality of using copyrighted works in training datasets will be decided by the courts without congressional intervention.
The campaign’s logo, song, and mascot were created using AI tools like ChatGPT, Suno, and Midjourney. However, Midjourney, one of the AI tools, is facing a class-action lawsuit for copyright infringement due to its use of billions of images from the internet to train its system.
Chamber of Progress has also advocated for an expansion of Section 230 to protect AI companies from certain infringement claims and proposed a liability framework to shield these services from liability when users submit infringement-driven queries.
The group’s stance on fair use and the use of copyrighted works by AI companies is aimed at promoting creativity and expanding access to creative tools for individuals, bypassing traditional gatekeepers in the creative industry.