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The debate centers on the billions of works underpinning the impressive wordsmithery of tools like ChatGPT, the coding prowess of Githubs Copilot, and artistic flair of image generators like that of startup Midjourney..
AI builders have largely assumed that using copyrighted material as training data is perfectly legal under the umbrella of fair useafter all, theyre only borrowing the work to extract statistical signals from it, not trying to pass it off as their own..
The answer is no, I do not, said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, which represents book authors and is suing both OpenAI and its primary backer, Microsoft, for violating the copyright of its members...
Generative AI is fair use, he argued, noting the similarities of the recent legal disputes with past lawsuits, some involving the Authors Guild, in which indexing creative works so that search engines could efficiently find them survived challenges...
While any future courtroom verdicts will likely depend on legal arguments over fair use, Matthew Butterick, a lawyer who has filed a number of lawsuits against generative AI companies, says the debate is really about tech companies that are trying to accrue more powerand hold onto it..
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