Copyright and AI
It had to happen eventually.
Writers, artists and others are realising that they need to protect themselves as it has become clearer that AI uses multiple sources to find the information people are using for research.
The information collected by AI is not attributed so it is impossible to know where it has come from.
According to a BBC investigation: “The new wave of generative AI systems are trained on vast amounts of data – text, images, video, and audio files, all scraped from the internet. Content can be created within seconds of a simple text prompt.”
There has been a growing number of lawsuits about the issue, including one by Getty Images earlier this year.
There clearly needs to be more regulation of the issue and artists and writers in particular are campaigning for copyright laws to be updated to reflect the new environment created by AI.
According to the BBC:
“The EU appears to be taking the lead, with the EU AI Act proposing that AI tools will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to train their systems.
In the UK, a global summit on AI safety will take place this autumn.”
