This is an interesting competitive moat. Apple is recognizing that there is a legal gray zone, and this could be seen as a direct move against those who are not licensing content for training. If you create a marketplace and contractual structures for licensing, it makes it harder for others to get away with it for free without publishers putting up more of a fight.
Yea and apple likely can write almost whatever terms they want.. basically everybody is actively scraping their content for free, and Apple is like, hey wouldn’t you rather get paid? Super similar to the days when Napster was the way people got music online and then Apple said hey wouldn’t you rather get $1 per song? Then once the precedent is set then they can go around saying look at all these freeloaders.. so only the companies with deep pockets can afford to pay the AI license fees..
This seems to be setting a bad precedent. If they setup this massive licensing market, doesn't that mean free and open source llms etc. will be illegal as they can't afford to license their stuff from billion dollar big license holders...
The legality of training models on copyrighted data without a licence is, or at least should be, independent of whether corporations decide to comply with copyright law.
Bad for humanity, good for Apple, good for the Publishers. So it'll probably stick as a precedent.
This is great, but also it's not like they have a choice. OpenAI can pirate content to build models, while Apple obviously can't unless they want to get out of the content licensing and creation business.