Fitzgerald also sees Google’s fingerprints on Creative Commons’ embrace of the argument that AI art is fair use, as Google is a major funder of the organization.

like mozilla, creative commons is poisoned by google money. google is calling in its chips now, and creative commons is dutifully paying up by throwing out all their principles and siding with big #tech

people like @aral who argue against mozilla accepting google money are right. it may not matter most of the time but when it does matter the organization will fall in favor of google, and that might tip the balance in a very bad direction for a long time. creative commons looks to be doing that as we speak. if google and other #AI makers win the argument that generative AI is fair use, then they get to slurp up anything any of us ever makes into their #AI training data and use it for whichever purposes they choose.

#creativecommons #ai #mozilla #dev #tech #web

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2024-01-12/column-copyright-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-ai-industry-but-its-not-going-down-without-a-fight