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月的第二个周末，唐纳德•特朗普(Donald Trump)解雇了美国版权局(US Copyright Office)局长。就上一个周五，该局发布了《版权与人工智能3：生成式人工智能训练》(Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training”)。对于那些在特朗普上台过程中投入巨资的“科技大佬”们来说，这份报告无异于宣战：它对“合理使用”抗辩的可行性提出了质疑，而OpenAI、Meta等科技公司正是依赖这一抗辩来为其在训练模型时不受限制地“抓取”网络数据辩护。