I predict that content owners will push for legislation that makes using a copyrighted as training data for a neural network explicitly illegal without the owne

I predict that content owners will push for legislation that makes using a copyrighted as training data for a neural network explicitly illegal without the owner‘s consent. They might argue that using copyrighted works to train neural networks was illegal even by the standards of today‘s law. But they will try to push to make it explicit, to avoid the obvious debate that copyright has never been designed as a tool to keep ideas hostage. And so I predict that the big winners of tomorrow are being created today, while there is still a certain Wild West and regulation is still foggy. Today, you can still train your models on Reddit, Common Crawl, and, who knows, maybe those Z-Library torrents that are out there? As long as your model will not quote its sources verbatim, it‘s very unlikely you‘ll face any consequences. But once the training data market becomes more regulated, it will become much more difficult to build a huge model without paying millions in license fees. In fact, I wouldn‘t be surprised if it OpenAI itself would not be pushing for more regulation at some point. Just like Google, once their own position seemed secure, began helping webmasters to „protect themselves“ against other people‘s automated crawlers (e.g. ReCaptcha).