時事短評

科技前沿議題解碼

生成式AI資料使用及API的收費爭議

作者James老師

Reddit在2023年的API收費政策引發的抗議事件,以及⽣成式AI公司如何使用數據引發版權爭議。它突顯了科技公司在盈利與社群利益之間的平衡挑戰,反映了數據驅動時代中隱私保護和著作權的重要性。Reddit的政策改變引發了開發者和用戶的抗議,突顯了社群對透明度和公平待遇的關切。同時,⽣成式AI公司的爭議則強調了在AI發展中法律和倫理框架的必要性,以平衡創新和知識保護。這些事件提醒我們,在科技進步的同時,需確保遵守法律和倫理準則,以維護公眾利益和創作者的權益。

題測
A wide variety of content creators have raised concerns about copyright and intellectual property used to train LLMs, The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming that it used the Times’ content to train its models and to create substitutive products. Other companies, authors, and programmers have also filed lawsuits against providers of LLMs for similar reasons. Consider yourself as an AI startup owner, answer the following questions.
(a) What does this mean for companies offering generative AI products and services? (10%)
(b) Regarding the copyright issue, does that mean it is better hanging together with existing LLM model provider, or that you should consider build your own foundation model instead? What are the leading factors about making the decision? (20%)