If you are a creator or artist with your work in digital form, including digital visual art, video art, and also even your voice, your intellectual property is up for grabs.
Even if you do not consider yourself a creator, you are creating content simply by being out in the world of surveillance, biometric gathering, doorbells, and cameras.
And thus, you are providing the content. Content that is data. Data that can also be used to train AI algorithms. Remember that AI voices, video, images, and handwriting, all come from somewhere and that somewhere is a huge database that we, humans, have generated.
Whether or not you earn income from these assets, your content is being taken and absorbed. So you should care, no matter what.
While we should have control and domain over our creations, our own voices, images, handwriting, and videos, because we are in a nascent stage for IP AI legislation, companies are taking full advantage of this ambiguity to take our data.
In addition, because the field is very much in flux and fickle, companies are getting bought and sold. A real example, is you are a VoiceOver artist working for Company A creating audiobooks, which then gets acquired by Company B, who then sweeps your consent from Company A into theirs. And now they are using your voice to train their AI voice generator to create audiobooks of their own without you.
And yes, we do have a responsibility to understand the terms and conditions, but they are also intentionally buried, obscured, and vague.
This is why, I am constantly advocating for systems that have to ask us to opt in, every single time, and ask for our consent, rather than us having to fight to opt out.
Due your due diligence. Fortify your contracts, opt out, and protect your data at every possible avenue.
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