Here's a question that can throw a generative AI company into a twist: "What content has been used to train your models?" While some opt to dodge the question, and others bullishly front out the issue entirely, the question of whether an AI company has scraped content for its own business purposes without permission is a thorny one.
At best, you're likely to get a mealy-mouthed explanation of "curated datasets", and at worst, a polemic about whether everything on the internet is essentially fair game.
