English Lords against AI robbery: the bill allowing to train on people's robots without their consent was thrown into the trash again

Artificial intelligence is, of course, cool. However, when the British government tries to legalise the massive use of copyrighted works for AI training without the authors' permission, someone should be on fire. And this someone is the House of Lords. For the fourth time in a row, the House of Lords has shot down the government's attempt to pass a law that would allow artificial intelligence to feed on any content without licences or consent.

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This is a scandalous initiative that would have allowed AI developers to use any copyrighted material - texts, music, code, images - for free if it was allegedly "for research". The bill was first discussed in 2022. Since then, the House of Lords has tabled it four times.

The main problem is that the interests of authors, artists, and rights holders are ignored. Many of them consider this approach not just unfair, but outright legalised piracy. Even the AI industry itself is of the opinion that without clear rules for data use, the technology risks losing public trust.

For its part, the government tries to present all this as a way to speed up innovation. But when "innovation" starts with robbery, it's a bit of a strange democracy, isn't it?

Source: BBC