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In a submission to the House of Lords communications and digital select committee, OpenAI said it could not train large language models such as its GPT-4 model without access to copyrighted work. “Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression – including blogposts, 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,” said OpenAI in its submission.

Source: ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

Scraping data off the net is feasible for startup AI companies struggling with funding, as it is cheap and a vast amount of data can be collected quickly and easily. The data also has variety as it includes not just websites and social media posts, but also public records and works created by writers, poets, painters, photographers, coders etc. These are data impossible to collect manually.

Source: Data Scraping AI Companies & Writers Fight to Define Future of AI

Anthropic, founded by former researchers from OpenAI, updated its commercial Terms of Service to spell out its ideals and intentions. By carving out the private data of its own customers, Anthropic is solidly differentiating itself from rivals like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta, which do leverage user content to improve their systems.

Source: Anthropic Says It Won’t Use Your Private Data to Train Its AI – Decrypt

Deepdub specializes in localizing entertainment content and generating multilingual voice clones using AI, showcasing the practical applications of generative AI’s advanced applications, which include having voice actors and celebrities narrate a movie in various languages without losing the nuances and tonal inflections that make their voices special and recognizable.

Source: Deepdub CEO on Power of AI Voice Clones to Reshape Streaming

The lawsuits posing these questions are in early stages of litigation. If they don’t produce settlements (as most litigation does), it could be years until a Federal District Court rules on the matter. Those rulings would probably be appealed, and appellate decisions could vary by circuit, which could potentially elevate the question to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source: Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law

Source: AI companies would be required to disclose copyrighted training data under new bill

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement on Wednesday, opening a new front in the increasingly intense legal battle over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, contends that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information.

Source: The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work