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James Bentley

'Widespread theft': The UK government's fifth attempt to push through a bill allowing AI companies to scrape any data they like shut down by the House of Lords

Judge gavel, scales of justice and law books in court.

AI doesn't care about copyright. It can't, obviously, because it's AI, and not a human being with thoughts and feelings. But it particularly doesn't care about copyright, partly because the US and UK governments are both pushing to let AI companies scrape data for use in generated text and imagery without a care thrown to the digital wind.

The House of Lords has just denied the UK government's fourth attempt to pass a bill to let it scrape whatever data it likes, and the counter to that is merely a push for transparency over which data is scraped.

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