Former Developer of Stability AI Launches Non-Profit Organization to Protect Copyrights of AI Models
Former leading developer of Stability AI, Ed Newton-Rure, who resigned due to contradictions about the scrapping content without the consent of the authors, launched a non-profit organization Fairly Trained. It will issue certificates to organizations that have received permission to use copyrights protected by their generative models.
The certificate will be awarded to companies that have already received a license. Many creators of AI models had not previously thought about legal nuances and simply collected data from the Internet. Of course, the authors do not agree with this practice and have already filed a huge amount of claims.
Newton-River project will help consumers choose ethical tools. The certificate confirms that the model studied on data obtained with the consent of copyright holders. 9 developers of generative models have already received it.
Among them – Beatoven.ai, Boomy, Briah, Endel, Lifescore, Rightsify, Somms.ai, Soundful and Tuney.
“We hope that the Fairly Trained Certificate will become a sign of quality for consumers and companies that respect copyright,” the organization said.
However, certification does not solve all problems. The issues of compensation to the owners of the content remain open. Negotiations between companies and plaintiffs on this subject continue.
“Certification from Fairly Trained is focused on obtaining consent from suppliers for training AI. We are convinced that thanks to this agreement, the copyright holders always gain advantages: fair compensation, indication of authorship in datasets, etc. It is clear that the authors may have different requirements for AI -companies. But if there is consent, it becomes possible to discuss any additional conditions,” the organization explains.
So far, companies are not required to inform Fairly Trained about the retraining of models on new data. But the certificate will be withdrawn if it turns out that the developer violates the requirements.
“We ask the company to reveal the sources of information and provide licenses for their use. If something is unclear, we ask clarifying questions. We are certified only when we are completely sure