Peter Henderson, Xuechen Li, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Mark A Lemley and Percy Liang, ‘Foundation Models and Fair Use’, available at SSRN (27 March 2023). ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Copilot are among the numerous generative AI systems launched in the last year or so. They have attracted a huge number of users as well as several lawsuits. Among the lawsuits’ claims are that the makers of these systems are direct and indirect infringers of copyright because of their use of millions of in-copyright works as training data and because outputs of these generative AI programs are infringing derivative works. At the core of these AI systems are foundation models on which the authors focus in their fascinating new article … (more)
[Pamela Samuelson, JOTWELL, 11 July 2023]
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