Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI
by Adi Robertson from The Verge - All Posts on (#6R0K6)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter. In an interview with The Verge deputy editor Alex Heath, Zuckerberg said Meta will likely strike certain partnerships" for useful content. But if others demand payment, then - as it's done with news outlets - the company would prefer to walk away.
I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of this," Zuckerberg said in the interview, which coincides with Meta's annual Connect event. My guess is that there are going to be certain partnerships that get made when...