Microsoft and Meta quizzed on AI copyright | Computer Weekly

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Microsoft and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and WhatsApp, were quizzed by members of Parliament during a House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee meeting about the state of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs). While Microsoft and Meta discussed the huge advances that have been made, both appeared to have given little thought on the implications of their work on protecting intellectual property (IP). LLMs need access to vast swathes of freely available data on the internet to improve accuracy and reduce bias – but scrapping text for commercial use infringes UK copyright law. Larter said: “Jurisdictions like the EU and Japan recently clarified that there is an exception within their law for text and data mining within the context of training an AI model. The authors of a recent Harvard Business Review article wrote: “AI developers should ensure that they are in compliance with the law in regards to their acquisition of data being used to train their models.

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