Why content licensing cannot solve AI’s training-data problem I have just published an article as part of the ProMarket symposium for the University of Chicago, the Booth School of Business, “The False Hope of Content Licensing at Internet Scale” Although the article is not very long, I thought I would summarize my point even more …
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