AI Should Know Better: What Creators Deserve from Ethical AI

Featuring a discussion I had with ChatGPT all about it

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When I learned about Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who blew the whistle on how AI systems like ChatGPT are trained, and how that affects the creators whose work might be used — without their knowledge or consent, I wrote into the ChatGPT app, “that’s awful”.

It turned into the conversation below.

Suchi Balaji raised concerns that AI models are being trained on copyrighted material without permission, potentially violating copyright laws and undercutting the very people who create the content AI learns from.

How It Hurts Creators

When AI models are trained on creative work — books, art, journalism, music — without credit or compensation, it causes real harm:

• Loss of income: If AI generates something similar to a creator’s work, people might use that instead of supporting the original.
• No recognition: Creators don’t get credit for their influence on AI-generated outputs.
• Unfair competition: Creators are being outpaced by machines that were trained using their own work.
• Erosion of creative careers: The more AI replaces humans, the harder it gets for people to…