Thursday Microsoft Notify This will provide legal protection to customers sued for copyright infringement related to content generated by the company’s artificial intelligence systems. The new policy, called the Copilot Copyright Commitment, is an expansion of Microsoft’s existing intellectual property damage coverage, Reuters said. Reports.
Microsoft’s announcement comes as artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have raised concerns about reproducing copyrighted material without proper attribution. Microsoft has invested heavily in artificial intelligence with products such as Github co-pilot And Bing Chat, which can generate native code, text and images on demand. Its AI models gained these capabilities by scraping publicly available data from the internet without the express permission of copyright holders.
By providing legal protection, Microsoft aims to give customers confidence in deploying their AI systems without worrying about potential copyright issues. The policy covers damages and legal fees, giving customers an added layer of protection as generative AI is rapidly being implemented across the tech industry.
“When customers ask if they can use Microsoft Copilot services and their products without worrying about claims of copyright infringement, we give a clear answer: yes, you can, and if you challenge copyright, we will be responsible for any legal issues. associated risks,” Microsoft writes.
Under the new commitment, Microsoft will indemnify customers who use Copilot, Bing Chat and other AI services against all legal damages, as long as they use the built-in guardrails.
In particular, if a third party sues a business customer for copyright infringement related to the use of or output from Microsoft Assistants, we will defend the customer and pay any adverse judgments or settlements resulting from the lawsuit. while a customer writes to Microsoft: We used guardrails and content filters that we built into our products.
With the advent of generative AI, the technology industry has grappled with questions about the proper certification or licensing of copyrighted raw materials used to train AI models. Legal experts say these complex copyright issues are likely to be decided in future legislation and court cases, some of which have already begun.
In fact, Microsoft has already filed lawsuits over its Copilot technology. Last November, the law firm of Joseph Savery A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft and OpenAI over GitHub Copilot’s alleged copyright violations arising from the deletion of publicly available code repositories. The status of that lawsuit is currently unknown, and Ars Technica could not confirm whether the case is still active through public records.
2023-09-09 04:43:07
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