Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. Copyright issues continue to dominate AI news this week.
First, U.K. newspaper the Telegraph surfaced a submission OpenAI made to the British House of Lords, which is considering whether to update the country’s copyright laws to address issues raised by generative AI. In the submission, OpenAI claimed creating “leading AI models” would be “impossible” without using copyrighted material and that relying instead on text in the public domain would result in AI that fails to “meet the needs of today’s citizens.”