Data is the new oil, as they say, and perhaps that makes Harvard University the new Exxon.
As a general rule, copyright protections last for the lifetime of the author plus an additional 70 years.
Publishers including theWall Street Journaland theNew York Timeshave sued OpenAI and competitor Perplexity for ingesting their data without permission.
Harvard University has released a dataset of public domain books for use in training AI models.Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Proponents of AI companies have made various arguments to defend their activities.
Everyone goes to school, reads books, and then produces new work using the knowledge they gained.
Remixing is legally considered fair use if the new creation is materially different.
TheWall Street Journalin itslawsuit against Perplexityhas said the startup copies on a massive scale.
Basically, a chatbot like Perplexity is akin to a web internet tool.
It will be some time before these arguments play out in court.
But it is clear they have done so begrudgingly.
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