AI Companies Copying Internet to Train Models Biggest Theft of Labour in History: Microsoft Executive
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The »New York Times« accuses AI providers of illegally training their systems with millions of articles. So far, they have denied this, but now there are explosive statements from a Microsoft manager.
AI companies copying internet to train models biggest theft of labour in history: Microsoft executive
When AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft and others started scraping vast amounts of internet data to train their models, not everyone inside the companies was happy about it. A Microsoft executive called the practice an “astonishing theft” and even described it as the “largest theft of labour in human history.”
New court documents in the case that confront 'The New York Times' with Microsoft and OpenAI have revealed concerns within both companies about the unauthorized use or compensation of millions of press articles to train their artificial intelligence models.
Microsoft Executive Calls AI Companies' Actions Historic Theft of Labour
AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini have gained substantial knowledge about the world by being trained on extensive datasets sourced from the internet. However, not all the information utilised in this training was obtained with permission or under fair terms. Allegations have arisen against organisations like OpenAI and Anthropic for allegedly using copyrighted […]
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