They’re distributing copyrighted works without the authors permission, using them in ways that compete with the author, many make money off AI’s, and the AI’s r

They’re distributing copyrighted works without the authors permission, using them in ways that compete with the author, many make money off AI’s, and the AI’s reproduce some verbatim. These datasets seem to fail most tests ("four factors") in copyright law. Even laypeople I’ve explained LLM’s to think the AI companies are ripping others’ work off. For those concerned, I have an article that covers legalities, each dataset (including The Pile), legal issues with them, alternatives that are legal, and a copyright amendment that balances all sides. http://gethisword.com/tech/exploringai/ http://gethisword.com/tech/exploringai/ Looking back at my proposal, I think we need at least three rules passed immediately in at least one country: 1. All copyrighted works can, if a person has legal access, be used for training AI systems. Any terms restricting copyrighted works from use in training, charging more for that, restricting downloads for it, etc are illegal. Every act of publishing can benefit both a human mind and AI training equally. 2. People can copy and transform for their own use any work they have access to only for AI training. This might include reverse engineering for extraction, multiple copies in different formats, and so on. They can do whatever is needed to get it into the AI system. Other uses or abuse of this data is subject to existing law. 3. Any work published online for free and with public access can be copied, shared, processed, and bundled for AI training. That’s regardless of its terms. Note: In No. 2 and No. 3, the resulting AI’s copyright will be determined by existing law about AI’s and mixing copyrighted works. Or no copyright if that’s the law. 4. If AI outputs are copywritten, their status will be the same as if the user published it themselves while relying on prior works. AI training sets will also be public to determine this. With those rules, we can share works like those in The Pile, still pay creators that want to be paid, be less likely to just steal existing work, and infringement in outputs is still illegal. What do you all think of that?