New Bill Would Require AI Companies to Disclose Copyrighted Training Data
Featured image: Depositphotos Cross-posted from petapixel.com [by Jaron Schneider] A new bill introduced by Rep. Adam Schiff would require all AI companies to disclose the copyrighted works used in training sets or face a fine. At present, the transparency of what exactly is used to train generative AI — specifically image generators — is murky at best. Few companies explicitly state what was used to train data and even when that information is shared, it is often obscured or poorly explained. For example, during an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month, OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati feigned ignorance or dodged the question entirely…