OpenAI Pushes for Federal-Only AI Regulation

By Kirsten Doyle for Information Security Buzz
Friday, March 14, 2025

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OpenAI has to exempt it from complying with state-level AI regulations, instead urging a unified approach under federal AI rules. It argues that a consistent, nationwide framework is critical to maintain US leadership in AI development and deployment.

A Question of Copyright

Dr Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb and a Fellow at the British Computer Society (BCS), says: “Arguably, the most problematic issue with the proposal – legally, practically and socially speaking – is copyright. Paying a truly fair fee to all authors – whose copyrighted content has already been or will be used to train powerful LLM models that are eventually aimed at competing with those authors – will probably be economically unviable, as AI vendors will never make profits.”

He says millions of authors from all around the globe, whose creative content was already misappropriated and exploited to unwarrantedly train for-profit AI models without any permission or even in a direct breach of licensing agreements, still stay without any compensation. “In the meantime, AI giants awkwardly strive to make everybody forget about the inconvenient past and blindly focus on the allegedly bright future.”

Advocating for a special regime or copyright exception for AI technologies – which will likely deprive human authors of the true value of their intellectual labor – will unlikely be even approach fairness, Kolochenko adds. Read Full Article