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

UK ministers urged to protect creatives whose work is used by AI firms

Illustration of a female robot
Creators say their material is being used to train language models, earning AI firms vast sums of money. Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Ministers must defend content creators whose work is being taken without permission by tech companies to build artificial intelligence products such as chatbots that generate “vast financial rewards”, a House of Lords committee has said.

The legal framework in the UK is failing to enforce the basic principles of copyright amid a rise in AI development, said the Lords’ communications and digital committee.

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