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Open AI and Google are asking the Trump administration to basically allow them to train their

AI on whatever the hell they want, regardless of whether the stuff that they want to feed into it is protected by privacy laws or patents or copyright.

The Trump administration has basically asked industry to come up with, you know, suggestions as to how they should get AI really going in this country. And this was Open AI and Google's

suggestion. And how are they defending this vacuuming up of, you know, all human creativity,

regardless of whether or not they have any right to it? Well, the time-honored excuse that somehow

if they don't do this, then China will get ahead

in whatever this AI race is that everybody seems so concerned about.

So I want to break all that down, but I also want to take you through a little bit of history

when it comes to a moment when I think we really had the chance to get it right and really

might have taken a different turn, you know, caught the

right train, basically, and avoided winding up in the position we're in right now where, more

or less all human creativity, art and music and writing and film and all of it, is really poised

to just be poured into AI and turned

into a kind of disposable entertainment that won't pay, I think, anyone ever again, really,

to be the kind of thoughtful, creative humans that we are so good at being.

So, okay, let me walk you through this legal history a little bit.

Try and stick with me because I think it really can sort of teach us something about it.

So between 2005 and 2015, America's writers and publishers battled Google in court.

What had happened was Google had created something called Google Print that went on to become Google Books.

This was in 2003. And Google basically grabbed up millions of books that they did not have the right to

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