The lawsuit could also impact banks, which are typically users rather than developers of generative AI models. While banks are less likely to be sued for copyright infringement, they are increasingly using large language models for a broad range of uses, including chatbots. This could potentially expose them to copyright infringement risks if they use copyrighted material to train their models. To mitigate these risks, banks are advised to carefully vet the models they use, ensure their intended uses align with the safety, ethics, and privacy interests of their customers, and focus on using internally-sourced data.
Key takeaways:
- The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI for using its articles to train ChatGPT, which could have implications for companies using generative AI.
- Companies will need to be more mindful of copyright law and ensure that any content used to train large language models is not protected by copyright law.
- Banks, as users of generative AI models, are less likely to be sued for copyright infringement, but they still need to be cautious about using copyrighted material to train their models.
- Companies can mitigate risk by setting strict parameters around how and on what their models may be trained, instructing and monitoring employees to ensure compliance, and maintaining careful records to document the ethical sourcing, composition, filtering and use of training data.