British book publishers have asked Rishi Sunak to add the protection of intellectual property rights of creative industries to the agenda at the November AI safety summit in the UK. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has imposed limits on his Twitter platform to address data scraping by AI firms, but plans to use public tweets to train models for his AI startup, xAI. Google and Meta have also updated their policies regarding the use of publicly available information for training AI models.
Key takeaways:
- The Guardian has blocked OpenAI from using its content to power AI products like ChatGPT, due to concerns over unlicensed content use and intellectual property protection.
- OpenAI's technology is trained using vast amounts of data from the open internet, including news articles, but the company does not disclose the specific data used to build its models.
- Several other major news websites and platforms, including CNN, Reuters, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, the New York Times, Amazon, and Quora, have also blocked OpenAI's GPTBot crawler from accessing their content.
- British book publishers have urged for the protection of intellectual property rights in the AI sector, asking for it to be added to the agenda at the upcoming AI safety summit in the UK.