OpenAI Urges Lawmakers to Drop Copyright Focus: California Brief

A representative for OpenAI told California lawmakers that they shouldn’t require artificial intelligence developers to disclose to copyright holders whether their works are in a model’s training data set, Titus Wu reports.

AI companies are collaborating more with copyright holders as they build up their models, Mark Gray, copyright policy counsel for OpenAI, said during a legislative panel. He cited OpenAI’s contract with news organizations such as The Associated Press and its work to display more excerpts of news from original sources on OpenAI’s platform.

Lawmakers should focus on specific use cases of AI, such as deepfakes, instead of the ...