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

UK publishers urge Sunak to protect works ingested by AI models

Sarah Silverman on stage
Sarah Silverman is one of the authors suing OpenAI in the US over claims the company has breached copyright law. Photograph: Earl Gibson III/Getty Images

UK publishers have urged the prime minister to protect authors’ and other content makers’ intellectual property rights as part of a summit on artificial intelligence.

The intervention came as OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, argued in a legal filing that authors suing the business over its use of their work to train powerful AI systems “misconceived the scope” of US copyright law.

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