Nature Editorial: “AI Firms Must Play Fair When They Use Academic Data in Training”

From Nature:

Researchers are among those who feel uneasy about the unrestrained use of their intellectual property in training commercial large language models. Firms and regulators need to agree the rules of engagement.

… research should continue into whether there is a need for more-radical solutions, such as new kinds of licence or changes to copyright law. Generative AI tools are using a data ecosystem built by open-source movements, yet often ignore the accompanying expectations of reciprocity and reasonable use, says Sylvie Delacroix, a digital-law scholar at King’s College London. The tools also risk polluting the Internet with AI-generated content of dubious quality. By failing to redirect users to the human-made sources on which they were built, LLMs could disincentivize original creation. Without putting more power into the hands of creators, the system will come under severe strain. Regulators and companies must act.

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