AI Dataset Licensing Companies Form Sector's First Trade Group

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector's first trade group, they said on Wednesday. The Dataset Providers Alliance (DPA) will advocate for 'ethical data sourcing' in the training of AI systems, including rights for people depicted in datasets and the protection of content owners' intellectual property rights, the companies said in a statement. Founding members include U.S. music dataset company Rightsify, image licensing service vAIsual, Japanese stock photo provider Pixta and Germany-based data marketplace Datarade.

Tethics

[VeryFluffyBunny]

Tech + ethics = tethics. They want to ensure that creatives' data gets used responsibly*.

"Responsibly" = maximising profits, minimising legal liabilities, & f**king the creatives & everyone else.

Data brokers union

[sg_oneill]

So basically a data brokers union.

How 2024. Workers get nothing, and the people who profile us into the dirt get organized.

Re:

[schneidafunk]

At least this is a move in the right direction. Certainly not an ideal solution, but better than straight up pirating / illegal data harvesting.

Re:

[Rei]

A "move in the right direction" that companies like Reddit and Twitter get to profit off of you, you get nothing, and AI becomes more centralized into big megacorps as smaller companies and open-source gets priced out the market?

People celebrating this need to catch a clue: these giant "big data" corporations aren't trying to *STOP* AI. They're trying to be the ones who get rich off of and control it.

Re:

[schneidafunk]

Oh I totally agree, I wonder how much slashdot is harvesting? :)

If it's free, you are the product.

4chan dosen't care

[xack]

Most of the AI generated images trolling the internet get made by the hacker known as 4chan, who don't care about your so called rights.

Re:

[schneidafunk]

This is exactly why Spotify exists. They realized you aren't going to defeat pirating, so you come up with some middle-ground approach.

First but not largest

[Turkinolith]

Founding members include U.S. music dataset company Rightsify, image licensing service vAIsual, Japanese stock photo provider Pixta and Germany-based data marketplace Datarade. So far in things related to AI, I've heard of none of these companies before. Not sure if this is really PR thing or what.