Copyright Office Declines to Bless Hacking to Study AI Bias (1)

The US Copyright Office is rejecting an exemption to a statutory hacking ban allowing researchers to circumvent digital security measures to probe artificial intelligence models for bias and discrimination.

Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter recommended denying the exemption because the issues raised by its supporters are linked to third-party control of online platforms, not federal copyright law, so “an exemption would not ameliorate their concerns,” according a final rule set to publish Oct. 28 in the Federal Register. The Library of Congress accepted the recommendation and didn’t include the exemption in the new rule.

Perlmutter acknowledged the importance of AI ...