OTTAWA — Canadian creators and publishers want the government to do something about the unauthorized and usually unreported use of their content to train generative artificial intelligence systems.
Generative AI can create text, images, videos and computer code based on a simple prompt, but to do that, the systems must first study vast amounts of existing content.In its submission to the government, Access Copyright argued most and potentially all large language models "are currently profiting from unauthorized use and reproduction of copyright protected works."
Music Canada, which represents the country's major record labels, said last year, a fake AI-generated song mimicking the voices of Drake and The Weeknd "made one thing abundantly clear: AI models and systems have already ingested massive amounts of proprietary datasets without authorization from the source of the data or rightsholders."
"Rightsholders will also undoubtedly face similar evidentiary issues as many datasets used to train Generative AI systems are purportedly destroyed after the initial training is complete," it said. Google said requiring permission to use content for training purposes would expose competitively sensitive information and "would effectively block the development and use of large language models and other types of cutting-edge AI.""In fact, there is no such source of truth anywhere in the world. Thus, complying with disclosure rules may simply prove impossible from the start.
The Council of Canadian Innovators, which represents the Canadian tech sector, said disclosure requirements would harm smaller companies as opposed to their Big Tech rivals. It warned this would "seriously hamper the potential of Canadian companies to scale significantly."The average CPP benefits differ at 60 and 65 and future retirees must understand that there are income gaps to fill in both options.