In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg argued that “individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value” of their work.
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AI companies have been indiscriminately scraping mind-boggling amounts of content to train their AI models, a controversial practice that has led to a litany of lawsuits by copyright holders, from major record labels and newspapers to artists and authors.
But if it were up to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, content creators and rights holders should just let these companies make use of their work for free.
In an interview with The Verge, Zuckerberg went as far as to argue that “individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content”, a comment that will likely come as a slap in the face for those whose work is being used to create these models.
If creators were to opt out of having their content be scraped, Zuckerberg said, “then we just wouldn’t use their content.
