There's a lot of discussion about whether existing copyright laws apply to training data, but not enough discussion of what should change in copyright law to give the best outcome to society.
I don't think treating ML systems as legally equivalent to a human brain is right, but I also don't think that copyright law is sufficient as-is. This is something entirely new.
It seems like society would benefit from have ML systems around that can be trained on copyrighted material, but not if it prevents authors from being able to make a career out of producing great work. We need to balance the outcome for owners of ML companies, authors, and society as a whole, ideally prioritising the latter.
I don't think treating ML systems as legally equivalent to a human brain is right, but I also don't think that copyright law is sufficient as-is. This is something entirely new.
It seems like society would benefit from have ML systems around that can be trained on copyrighted material, but not if it prevents authors from being able to make a career out of producing great work. We need to balance the outcome for owners of ML companies, authors, and society as a whole, ideally prioritising the latter.
What do you think we should do?