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Organizations like the Screen Actors Guild and the RIAA have already come out in support of the legislation.

The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act from Rep. Adam Schiff requires dataset creators to summarize which copyrighted material AI models used to learn.

If passed, the legislation could provide evidence for filmmakers, writers and artists to sue AI companies for using their copyrighted works to train AI systems.

The race to lead AI has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain it, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law.

Does an artificial intelligence (“AI”) company have the right to use copyrighted content to train its AI model? That question is being reviewed where two giants have squared off in a...

The race to lead AI has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.

SAN FRANCISCO — In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology — lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an AI system smarter. Sig...

As AI becomes more powerful, tech companies like Meta and OpenAI have sought data more aggressively, opening them up to copyright violations.

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At present, the content and function of libraries – and the funding for them - are in flux. Increasingly, libraries are being under-funded and seen as unnecessary in the digital age.