"I would suggest that we do not forget that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and some of the top VC firms in Silicon Valley were behind this bill and driving for its passage. Or that, had these companies not sent teams of lobbyists to DC and sold the idea that AI is a zero sum arms race with China, it would not have existed at all. That biggest AI companies—Anthropic excepted, to its credit, even if its opposition was performative—were directly campaigning to exempt their products and practices from the democratic process. They were actively pushing to radically de-democratize a technology they are selling us all as a great force for democratization.
As OpenAI and Meta et al quietly move on to building and selling their next generation of AI products, don’t forget what they tried to do. Which, essentially, can be boiled down to “stop California from passing laws to regulate AI that might take a little time and money to comply with.”"
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/dont-forget-what-silicon-valley-tried
Reddit is suing AI startup Anthropic
Used Reddit’s data to train AI
Bypassed bot blocks
Violated content policy
Unlike OpenAI & Google, no data deal
Will companies need explicit licenses to train on public web data?
And how do we balance innovation with consent and compensation?