Cuban: IP practices will radically change as AI training absorbs published work
Mark Cuban · Mark Cuban on AI, Career Advice, and Running for President. · Aug 21, 2025 · at 9:18
Mark Cuban discusses the collapse of the academic 'publish or perish' model due to AI training data extraction.
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“Part two, we're, I think we're going to see a groundswell in how intellectual property is dealt with. A groundswell change in how IP is dealt with. Because there was, for a long time, it's been publish or perish. Get your stuff out there. Get it into journals. Make it available so that you can present yourself as being an expert. Well, the minute you do that right now, it's going to get absorbed into, you know, training data for these models, and you've lost everything you've just created.”
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