![Barry Diller on A.I.: The next thing to pay attention to is 'when it goes from research to action'](https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107306591-16957339401695733932-31350744569-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1695734209&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y)
Slamming the tentative labor deal between Hollywood writers and studios, media mogul Barry Diller on Tuesday laid out his biggest bone of contention with generative artificial intelligence.
Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia, called for the law to be redefined to protect published material from capture in artificial intelligence knowledge-bases.
“Fair use needs to redefined because what they’ve done is sucked up every thing and that violates the premise of the copyright law,” Diller said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “All we wish to do is establish that there is no such thing as a such thing as fair use for AI, which provides us standing.”
Diller’s complaints got here as distinguished authors, including George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult, sue OpenAI for copyright infringement. His remarks also followed on the heels of the Writers Guild of America’s tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to end a virtually 150-day strike.
Diller is not a fan of the deal.
“They spent months trying to craft words to protect writers from AI and so they ended up with a paragraph that protected nothing from nobody,” Diller said.
The main points of the tentative deal between the WGA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers haven’t yet been made public. Hollywood studios are expected to walk away with the fitting to use and train AI models using writers’ work, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources aware of the negotiations. Then again, writers are expected to be guarenteed compensation for work they do on scripts, even when the studios employ an AI tool, the Journal added.
Legacy media and AI corporations, most notably ChatGPT creator OpenAI, have clashed on what content should be allowed into the knowledge base of generative artificial intelligence. Critics of AI point to the fair use doctrine under U.S. copyright law, which allows limited portions of a piece to be used with no license or compensation. Generative AI and language-based model systems index entire bodies of labor inside their knowledge base, a violation of fair use, some argue.
According to Diller, it’s one in every of his key points of contention with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.
“The thing that Sam and I disagree and have talked about is that he believes fair use allows him to take all of a publisher’s [work],” said Diller. “We consider that it doesn’t.”
Altman, who also served on the Expedia board with Diller, testified before senators in May to discuss regulations on AI.
“We expect that creators deserve control over how their creations are used, and what happens type of beyond the purpose of them releasing it into the world,” Altman said in the course of the hearing. “We’d like to work out latest ways with this latest technology that creators can win, succeed and have a vibrant life, and I’m optimistic that this can present it.”
CNBC has reached out to OpenAI for a response to Diller’s remarks.
Shutterstock, a stock media service and OpenAI partner since 2021, arrange a contributors fund for creators which provides compensation if their mental property is used during AI content generation. Altman also said that Shutterstock was critical within the training of OpenAI’s generative media AI, DALL-E.