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Professor John Licato Interviewed by Computerworld

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Dr. John Licato (CSE, assistant professor) was interviewed by , an online magazine, about concerns raised over OpenAI鈥檚 . A key statement under fire seems to indicate their position is that GenAI is valuable enough to society to warrant special provisions in copyright law. 

鈥淏ecause copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression 鈥 including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents 鈥 it would be impossible to train today鈥檚 leading AI models without using copyrighted materials,鈥 said OpenAI.

A range of lawsuits have been filed in multiple countries over what many assert is OpenAI鈥檚 unlawful use of web-scraping, the automation of copying data from websites. OpenAI states it has made efforts to allow creators to opt out of letting the models train on their work, but that seems to start with the assumption that copyrighted material was and remains fair use for them. This raises the fair question: what are some alternative methods of training AI without copyrighted material?

To find out about Dr. John Licato鈥檚 view on this topic please see the full article on Computerworld, . 

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