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月的第二個周末，唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)解雇了美國版權局(US Copyright Office)局長。就上一個周五，該局發布了《版權與人工智能3：生成式人工智能訓練》(Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training”)。對于那些在特朗普上臺過程中投入巨資的“科技大佬”們來說，這份報告無異于宣戰：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為其在訓練模型時不受限制地“抓取”網絡數據辯護。