Theft Is Not Fair Use.
It All Begins Here
“One of AI’s original sins (there are many) is scraping every corner of the Internet for training data, sucking up text, photos, video, music and anything they can find online to feed the large language models tech companies are racing to develop. Intellectual property rights and copyrights be damned, in true Silicon Valley style, AI companies are moving fast and breaking things. They need the data, so they take it and claim it’s transformative fair use. It’s not; it’s theft.”
David Carson, Medium, 2025 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, https://jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11f0d063
AI is an impactful gimmicky word for good ol’ computer programming that has been trained to process, copy, and reuse other people’s hard work. We gobble this up when it gives us value for free/cheap, and decry it when it’s our own process/products that have been stolen.
Which is why the content here is absolutely FREE, but stuck behind a log-in process that as of yet, AI doesn’t see worth cracking into. Soon, as more and more content creators begin to implement these safeguards, they’ll simply have AI write itself a code to whip up a fake login and get in/out with the goodies. But this is the solution, until then - a step, a barrier to entry.
My entire educational and non-profit career has been about removing barriers to entry, but here I am, building them in!
Thanks for your patience, and for the opportunity to connect and catch up on these important ethical/logistical issues. Catch you on the other side of the log-in!
(Click link above or here: www.GoodHeartsMeet.com/blog to be taken to the free log-in page!)