The article critiques Open AI and Google's attempt to override established copyright laws under the guise of promoting national security against the Chinese Communist Party. The author argues that this notion relies on theft of journalistic content without compensation. Open AI's claims of fostering innovation through AI technology are juxtaposed against past advancements like the printing press, emphasizing that the latter did not involve stealing work from others. The article highlights the lawsuit against Open AI by major news organizations, stressing the potential dangers of diluting copyright protections for the benefit of AI bots.
Now Open AI comes back with the absurd argument that this was somehow necessary for national security. In their letter, Sam Altman's crew added a whole lot of obfuscating, self-serving blather about scaling human ingenuity and freedom of learning and knowledge.
With a Chinese Communist Party determined to overtake us by 2030, Open AI wrote Thursday to the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy, arguing that the only way for the United States to defeat them is for those tech giants to steal the content created with the sweat equity of America's human journalists.
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