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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says

OpenAI and ChatGPT logos.
Chatbots such as ChatGPT are ‘trained’ on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.

Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission.

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