A senior executive at the tech firm Stability AI has resigned over the company’s view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.
Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, which is based in the UK and US.
He told the BBC he thought it was “exploitative” for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.
He told the BBC he thought it was “exploitative” for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.
The “fair use” exemption to copyright rules means the permission of the owners of the original content is not required.
The US copyright office is currently conducting a study about generative AI and policy issues.
Mr Newton-Rex stressed that he was talking about all AI firms which share this view – and the majority of them do.
Replying to his former member of staff in a post on X (Twitter), Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque said the firm believed fair use “supports creative development”.
AI tools are trained using vast amounts of data, much of which is often taken, or “scraped”, from the internet without consent.
A senior executive at the tech firm Stability AI has resigned over the company’s view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.
He told the BBC he thought it was “exploitative” for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.
Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, which is based in the UK and US.
The “fair use” exemption to copyright rules means the permission of the owners of the original content is not required.
He told the BBC he thought it was “exploitative” for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.
He told the BBC he thought it was “exploitative” for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.
The “fair use” exemption to copyright rules means the permission of the owners of the original content is not required.
The US copyright office is currently conducting a study about generative AI and policy issues.
Mr Newton-Rex stressed that he was talking about all AI firms which share this view – and the majority of them do.
Replying to his former member of staff in a post on X (Twitter), Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque said the firm believed fair use “supports creative development”.
AI tools are trained using vast amounts of data, much of which is often taken, or “scraped”, from the internet without consent.
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