Source: Tech.co
OpenAI, the company behind the famed ChatGPT AI model, has claimed in a recent legal filing that it needs copyrighted materials in order to continue training its AI model.
In this new filing, OpenAI appears to be suggesting that it should be allowed to use copyrighted materials for free, since the alternative is its business collapsing.
“Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression — including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents — it would be impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today’s citizens.”
OpenAI is already facing lawsuits related to the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials: The New York Times alleges “massive copyright infringement” for the use of its content for training, while the Authors Guild has also sued over the use of famous authors’ works in AI training.
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