The AI x Copyright

To say I never was a big fan of copyright is an understatement, I understand the idea behind it but always thought their laws were too rigid in a way that limited the content reach. In my head copyright was only applicable when you had a qualitative and inclusive way to enforce it.

Like for me it never made sense if a country does not have proper access to a content why people can not access through the internet? I was not made any other accessible way to consume it. I always said in those earlier times that as soon as something inclusive and with quality showed up people would happily trade the tiring process of downloading something for the facility of accessing this for a user platform. And that was factual with the appearance of platforms like Steam, Netflix and Spotify.

So you probably can already guess that I have a controversial opinion on this topic in AI. For me any content creator that makes real and original complex content has nothing to fear, AI is just not able to create something in this quality, is more a cheap solution with less return that an actual competitor. The tools will more help the creative process then limit it, being an assistant instead of a replacement. It will also enable people with no knowledge to create some content, but not the real deal.

Noticing I say complex original content, now, there is space to fear of replacement to manual not original content, the empty content created only to fill some spot(like some social media posts), this type AI excels at and will take the task? Now do I think those types of content deserve some protection for AI automation. No, i don’t. It does not have copyright laws on it today for a reason and makes no sense trying to apply non-existent rules for AI.

Any manual job that does not need critical thinking will be automated by AI in the next few years, this is unstoppable, is the path of technological evolution that is being repeated decade after decade. And we should not stop it.

You are probably asking me angrily in your head: What about the people that will lose their job for AI? Well, it is not AI’s fault or job to look for those people, like it never was of any other tech advancement, in our society the entity with the job description to actually act on this already was selected and defined: it is the government. Be by UBI, or auxiliary income only for those people or a migration jobs program. The government has to figure this one out by not abiding people’s absurd demands and walking backwards but moving forward.

Those people should stop cursing AI on the internet and ask for its stop, which will never work in the long run but instead ask their government for a solution.

Now, making this aspect clear, I will talk about how I think existing copyright laws today should be enforced and what news rules should be made in the dawn of AI.

Human Content:

• Free content online is free available content to AI training, but not individual use. If a person disagrees they can put it on a paywall.
• Physical content(as not digital), like books, art or whatever applies should be able to decide if it is available to AI use or not.
• AI does not create a copy, it learns to make something new, that being said, any use that is not for training and classify as individual use should be under copyright laws and the creator properly consent. That involves AI editing or any relatives of it.

AI Generated Content:

• All under creative commons law by default, possible to being used to training or individual use;
• If the author wants to restrict use and put a copyright then he should buy a license for it.
• All AI Generated content must be marked on creation phase by a recognizable common digital signature to differentiate them from human generated content.

So, anyway, this is my take on it, what do you think about it?