The plan won’t affect the US’s ability to compete with China.
David Newhoff 23. Author, communications professional, and copyright advocate, with more than 20 years’ experience in consulting. "With AI, Big Tech is No Longer Pretending to Care". Illusion of More. 11-13-2023. https://illusionofmore.com/with-ai-big-tech-is-no-longer-pretending-to-care/
And that brings me back to Andreessen Horowitz, and the gall it takes to so frankly dismiss the rights of all creators as an inconvenient barrier to VC wealth. In its comments to the Copyright Office, a16z recited Psalm 1 from the Book of Tech-Bro, demanding our blind faith that what’s good for the tech sector is always good for the country. “[Investor] expectations have been a critical factor in the enormous investment of private capital into US-based AI companies. Undermining those expectations will jeopardize future investment, along with U.S. economic competitiveness and national security.”
After recovering from the spit take at manifesto-writing capitalists seeking federal protection for their private equity investments, the only sensible reply to the overstated reference to national security is BULLSHIT. If the future of U.S. national security depends on developing a for-profit generative AI to make music or paint pictures, we’re screwed. Fortunately, this is not the case. Defense Department AI strategy (good, bad, or otherwise) will proceed independent of AI’s role in creative works of expression. Accordingly, it is both revealing and ridiculous that Andreesen Horowitz would even mention national security in comments to the Copyright Office.