The Controversy Surrounding Generated AI and Copyright Infringement
TapTechNews June 29th news, with the gradual attention of the generated AI by all walks of life, some controversial issues have begun to surface. One of the biggest controversies among them is whether AI companies use copyrighted content when training their models, and some writers, publishers or media companies have filed a series of lawsuits against the generated AI companies including Microsoft.
Mustafa Suleyman, the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft's AI division, when interviewed by CNBC on Thursday local time, talked about the issue of generated AI obtaining data from the web. His reply was:
For content that has already been publicly available on the web, since the 1990s, the social contract for this content has been 'fair use', and anyone can copy, re-create, and reproduce this content. This content has always been regarded as 'freeware', which is a general consensus.
There is also a separate case where when a website, publisher or news agency explicitly states that its content should not be crawled or scraped for any other reason except indexing it for others to find. This is a gray area that I think will gradually be resolved in the courts.
However, since last year, many news publishing agencies or writers have sued Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing their chatbots of'stealing' their works to train AI models and infringing copyright. According to TapTechNews' previous reports, the institutions that filed lawsuits against Microsoft and OpenAI include, but are not limited to, The New York Times and many Pulitzer Prize winners.
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