Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works

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Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.

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Because the tech behind it isn't cheap and money does not fall from trees.

No entity on the planet has more money than our governments. It’d be more efficient for a government to fund this than any private company.

Many governments on the planet have less money than some big tech or oil companies. Obviously not those of large industrious nations, but most nations aren't large and industrious.

The government and efficiency don't go together

Plenty of research shows that each dollar into government programs gets much more returns than private companies. This literally a neolib propaganda talking point.

There is nothing objectively wrong with your statement. However, we somehow always default to solving that issue by having some dragon hoard enough gold, and there is something objectively wrong with that.

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