In his Lunch with the FT with your editor Roula Khalaf (“‘This is genius-level intelligence’”, Life & Arts, FT Weekend, May 10) Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI and the man behind ChatGPT, acknowledges that compensation for artists may be required in the use of others’ intellectual property to train large language model artificial intelligence.
He goes on to say that “we agree we need a new business model for this kind of a world, but what it is, the community is still sort of feeling their way through”.
He is right on both counts. But these woolly intentions are not good enough. What’s needed are well-developed licensing models and mechanisms agreed with rights holders’ representatives to translate ideas and intentions into action. These can include “one to one” and collective licensing solutions.
C’mon Mr Altman, where there’s an AI will, there’s a business model way.
Laurence Kaye
IP & Technology Lawyer
Aldenham, Hertfordshire, UK
