Copyright Disputes Erupt Over AI's Mass Data Harvesting
• Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT are built by "scraping" vast amounts of text and data without clear rights or permissions. This has sparked lawsuits over copyright infringement.
• The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for using its articles without permission to train AI models. The U.S. Copyright Office is also now embroiled in legal disputes over AI training data.
• The concept of "fair use" is central to these disputes - whether scraping data to train AIs should be allowed under free use provisions.
• Smaller AI models trained on an individual's own content can power personalized chatbots to represent someone's "personal brand" online.
• Serial entrepreneur Neil Senturia argues everyone should create their own personal AI chatbot using their own writing and content to act as a customized online presence.