In a sentence that reads like something out of a very derivative sci-fi novella, peers in the House of Lords have pushed back against the United Kingdom government's bill around training AIs. Yes, this is exactly the kind of future I imagined living in. Not the cool one with flying electric vehicles.
As the Guardian reports, the UK is looking to make it legal to train AI on copy-write protected materials, as long as the owners don't specifically object. This opt-out approach was rightly pointed out to be too cumbersome by critics of the movement. In some cases you'd have to get lucky to even know about the AI that's using your work, let alone have the savvy to contest it.
