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Craig Hale

Microsoft AI CEO claims any content published online is "freeware" to help train AI — and people are not happy

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Microsoft's head of AI has sparked outrage by claiming all publicly available information used to train AI models as “freeware.”

Speaking in an interview with CNBC at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI attempted to differentiate between openly accessible web content and copyrighted material explicitly protected by publishers.

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