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Let the AI copyright wars begin
Likely one of the firstâand far from lastâcopyright lawsuits has been filed against OpenAI.
Novelists Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad claim that OpenAIâs large language model, ChatGPT, spit out pretty accurate summaries of their literary works when prompted, something they argue would be impossible unless the AI had been trained on their books without their consent.
Thereâs no doubt that, increasingly, regulators and courts will be tasked with mulling over the rules of copyright with regards to AI. Itâll open up a whole new murky legal area in the copyright debate⊠maybe even murkier than the legal rights of a selfie-taking crested macaque.
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