Many AI models are trained on copyrighted material
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The UK government has announced plans to allow artificial intelligence models to be trained on copyrighted content, settling one of the big uncertainties of the current AI revolution – but the proposal has been criticised by campaigners who worry about the way AI companies already allegedly flout copyright rules.
“There’s nothing balanced about it,” says Ed Newton-Rex, a musician and former executive at AI company Stability AI. “It will hand most of the UK’s creative work to AI companies, for free, letting them build highly scalable competitors to…