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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Robert Booth

UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

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The proposed exception to the UK’s copyright laws would allow Google and the ChatGPT developer OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted content. Photograph: Maskot/Getty Images

Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption.

Book publishers said the proposal put out for consultation on Tuesday was “entirely untested and unevidenced” while Beeban Kidron, a crossbench peer campaigning to protect artists’ and creatives’ rights, said she was “very disappointed”.

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