A group of Democratic senators has asked the Federal Trade Commission and the US Departme of Justice to investigate artificial ielligence tools used to summarize texts and instructions for possible violations of competition laws.
Currely, there are many artificial ielligence-based tools on the Iernet that can summarize news and instructions for users and provide their own conclusions from any text. Some chatbots are also equipped with such a feature. While the ability to summarize long texts can be very useful for users, US senators are concerned about its impact on market competition.
Artificial ielligence tools use other people’s coe for free
According to TechCrunch, a group of Democratic senators have se a letter to the Federal Trade Commission and the Departme of Justice asking them to review the compliance of artificial ielligence-based text summarization tools with competition laws. According to these senators, artificial ielligence tools are hitting manufacturers and publishers.
Many news organizations have had to retrench and fire their employees in rece years. While companies like Google and Meta use the coe produced by these companies for free and do not pay any money in return. Now artificial ielligence tools are also using the publishers’ coe for free, along with the tech gias. This can cause an irreparable blow to the economy of the news media.
According to US senators, a number of large companies are corolling the market to monetize original coe through advertising, and these companies are changing the market in their favor. Users who do not agree to make their coe available for use by artificial ielligence will be excluded from the market by these companies.
In their letter, the senators also asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Departme of Justice to investigate whether these new practices are a form of monopolistic behavior or a method of unfair competition in violation of aitrust laws.
