Senators and law professors lambasted AI companies’ use of copyrighted books and articles to train large language models at a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.
The discussion, led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, drilled into questions around the fair use doctrine that has been wielded by big tech companies attempting to fend off numerous copyright infringement accusations. One particularly heated exchange focused on how far that defense can be stretched to protect AI companies that downloaded terrabytes of books from pirate websites.
The hearing’s five witnesses included law professors, bestselling author ...
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