"In the AI world, everyone always seems to be going for broke. It's AGI or bust - or as the gloomier title of a recent book has it, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. This rhetorical severity is backed up by big bets and bigger asks, hundreds of billions of dollars invested by companies that now say they'll need trillions to build, essentially, the only companies that matter. To put it another way: They're really going for it."
"OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyright material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear, according to people familiar with the matter ... The opt-out process for the new version of Sora means that movie studios and other intellectual property owners would have to explicitly ask OpenAI not to include their copyright material in videos the tool creates."
AI companies are committing huge capital and framing development as an AGI race that justifies massive investment and risk. Companies report hundreds of billions invested and claim they will need trillions to build dominant platforms. Some firms propose business models that place the burden on rights holders, such as enabling content-generation tools that include copyrighted material unless creators opt out. Those proposals presuppose favorable legal outcomes on fair use and reproduction of competitive outputs. Firms are invoking national-security and geopolitical competition to influence regulators and courts. The approach creates tensions between technological ambition and existing intellectual-property law.
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