OpenAI says it’s ‘impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material. While corporations are doing everything they can to restrict people from downloading or using anything copyrighted and refuse to release stuff under free licenses, they want us to wave all our rights so they can re-sell (and more importantly impose their proprietary licenses) to us what we already own.

People are still being fined, sued, and threatened by various punishments for simply downloading a 20-year-old movie yet are expected to provide their material to these giant corporations for free and even if they don’t, they can’t do anything about it as we see thousands (or millions) of examples of copyright violations by these corporations and copyright infringements every single day regarding AI training.

It begs the question that what privacy and data regulators are doing about this and how people can protect themselves from these data-hungry violators. I’m amazed about how advanced and intelligent computers and programs have become but I care more about my rights than a computer program being able to replicate people’s material, manipulate them and create something (supposedly and allegedly) new.