At the time OpenAI had also come to an agreement with the AP, for reference. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. How to balance the need to respect copyright and ensure that AI development doesn’t grind to a halt will not be answered quickly. But the agreements and more fractious disputes between creators and the AI companies that want to ingest and use that work to build artificial intelligence models create an unhappy moment for both sides of the conflict. Tech companies are busy baking new generative AI models trained on data that includes copyright-protected material into their software products; Microsoft is a leader in that particular work, it’s worth noting.

Source: New York Times January 02, 2024 19:12 UTC