Copyright law in the age of AI

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the companies’ artificial intelligence systems were illegally trained on copyrighted articles from the news outlet. But can our current intellectual property laws stand up to rapidly developing AI technology? We’ll get into it. And, we’ll hear what Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell wants to see more of before cutting interest rates. Plus, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the first time she smoked pot in college.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “OpenAI Says New York Times Lawsuit Against It Is ‘Without Merit’” from The New York Times

- “The economy and ethics of AI training data” from Marketplace

- “Fed Signals Cuts Are Possible but Not Imminent as It Holds Rates Steady” from The Wall Street Journal

- “NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Ends Its Mission” from The New York Times

- “‘Wait Wait’ for January 27, 2024: With Not My Job guest Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen” from NPR

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0:00.0	I am ready to go on to you. Let's do it.
0:03.0	All right.
0:04.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:10.0	Hey everybody, I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:12.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:14.8	I'm caught.
0:15.8	I almost brain farted on my name, sorry.
0:18.8	I'm Kai Rizal.
0:19.6	Thanks for joining us on this Thursday, February 1st.
0:21.6	The reason I did a double take was because I looked at the date and I'm like, oh my God, it's February already.
0:25.0	It is, isn't that wild? That's ridiculous. It is. But it is February and today, and it's also a Thursday. So today we are going to look back at some of the big stories of the week with audio clips that we have lined up.
0:38.0	So let's get to our first one.
0:40.0	One of the things that is going to be very, very important is both what is the copyright protection
0:46.4	as well as what is fair use in a world where there is transformative new technology.
0:54.0	This one, you're me, what do you think? You're taking it?
0:55.0	Sure, I'll do it.
0:56.0	We should probably figure that out beforehand, sorry.
0:59.0	Yes, we should.
1:00.0	Anyway, whatever.
1:02.0	That was Microsoft CEO Saatchi Nadella in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt talking about the New York Times lawsuit against Open AI and Microsoft.
1:12.0	Other writers and organizations include in works were illegally used to train their AI systems like Chad GBT, mid-journey, and a bunch of the other
1:26.5	ones. AI companies on the other hand say that these systems should be allowed to read whatever
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