Alphabet and Meta want to use Hollywood feature films as AI training data

According to Bloomberg, Meta and Alphabet/Google have recently offered various Hollywood studios millions of dollars for licence agreements to use feature films as training data for their own generative AI models. According to the report, however, neither Netflix nor Disney are in principle "willing to licence their content", but have at least "expressed interest in other types of collaboration". Diametrically opposed to this, Warner Brothers Discovery
is said to show a fundamental willingness "to license some programmes".

Meta does not wish to comment further on the subject and Google did not even respond to a corresponding request for comment. Which is understandable in principle, of course. After all, many AI companies are now much more cautious when it comes to using third-party data for their own generative AI models - precisely because the legal situation is still rather ambiguous.