Lynn Langmade, Ph.D.

New article by FAI basically argues AI firms should be able to steal intellectual property through "fair-use style exceptions": "The U.S. Trade Representative should prioritize bringing the full weight of American commercial power to bear on opening up and securing valuable sources of training data worldwide to U.S. firms. This may include trade deals that carve out fair use-style exceptions for model training in the intellectual property frameworks of other nations, as well as deals to obtain exclusive access to valuable datasets in other countries. This might include multilingual materials, high-quality scientific or scholarly corpora, and multimodal image, audio, and video datasets." Calling it "fair-use style exceptions doesn’t change what it really is—AI firms lobbying to rewrite global trade rules so they can harvest intellectual property without permission. The push to ‘secure valuable datasets’ sounds a lot like legalized theft Link below👇