How to Fix ‘AI’s Original Sin’

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places […] Continue reading at 'O'Reilly Radar '

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World Book Day: Publishers Call for Canada’s Copyright Law To Be Fixed

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