The head of Google parent company Alphabet, Sunder Pichai, has given a new interview to the BBC in which he says fears of the AI bubble bursting may well be justified. "I think no company is going to be immune, including us," said Pichai.
We'll return to the bubble, but the section of the interview that really jumped out at me related to current AI use and in a wider sense the business model. AI companies have until now relied on a fair use defense for their unprecedented use of copyrighted content to train their models, via the process known as "scraping."
