The recent spotlight on artificial intelligence (AI) companies has intensified the scrutiny surrounding the content utilized to train their innovative products. OpenAI, a prominent developer in the field, has asserted that creating transformative tools like its groundbreaking chatbot, ChatGPT, would be an insurmountable task without access to copyrighted material. As AI firms face mounting pressure regarding the sources of data used to train their systems, the issue of copyright infringement looms large.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are trained through exposure to an extensive dataset sourced from the internet. However, a significant portion of this data is subject to copyright restrictions, which serve as legal safeguards against unauthorized usage of someone else’s work…
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