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Trump Rejects Idea of Paying Copyright Holders for AI Training: ‘It Just Doesn’t Work That Way’

WASHINGTON, D.C., JUL 24 – Trump says mandatory payments to copyright holders for AI training would harm U.S. competitiveness and calls for a common sense approach to AI regulation and innovation.

  • At the start of this week, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley proposed a bill aiming to prevent artificial intelligence firms from using copyrighted material for training purposes without obtaining authorization.
  • This bill responds to ongoing legal battles where AI firms argue training on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use, a position supported by recent federal court rulings.
  • Simultaneously, at a Wednesday AI Summit, President Trump rejected the idea that AI companies should pay for every copyrighted article or book used in training models.
  • Trump argued that expecting AI developers to pay for all copyrighted materials used in training models is unrealistic and stressed the importance of establishing a unified federal regulation for the industry.
  • These developments suggest a divide between legislative pushes to protect rightsholders and executive efforts to promote AI growth by avoiding extensive copyright payments.
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US President Trump wants to free American AI models from respect for copyright. The tech industry hopes for its deregulation.

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Tech-Bro: US President Donald Trump puts himself on the side of the tech companies in the fight AI training vs. copyright. AI development will not be successful, if you have to pay for every single article, book or anything else you have read or studied, he said at an AI summit. The goal of the US is to be world leader in the field of artificial intelligence. persoenlich.com (Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / picturedesk.com)

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