DECRYPTION – These AIs trained on protected content. While trials await, a solution is emerging in France.
“Anyone who wants to use the work of journalists from the Wall Street Journal to train artificial intelligence must obtain authorization and pay the corresponding license fees. This statement from the Dow Jones Group illustrates a new phase in the media’s view of generative artificial intelligence, popularized by the ChatGPT site. First there was the fascination with technology capable of magically creating bespoke text or images. Then the fear of a tool which, by providing answers to Internet users’ questions, could push back the audience redirected by search engines to news sites. Now comes the time for the legal.
Because, whether it’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat or the image generators Dall-E, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, all these generative AIs first needed to learn to write and draw. This ability did not come to them from nowhere: these models…