Can you ever really own an idea?
The publishers, music producers, and film directors who make up the creative economy would say yes — as would many of the artists and writers they work with. But some in Big Tech are beginning to push back, arguing that ideas—like information—should be free, accessible, and repurposeable for anyone. When it comes to ideas, they argue, even those which spring directly from our own heads are the product of every other idea, environment, and person we’ve come into contact with. As such, they are fair game for training the large language models (LLMs) behind the AI platforms many of us have become reliant upon.
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