Ministers must defend content creators whose work is being taken without permission by tech firms to build artificial intelligence products such as chatbots that generate “vast financial rewards”, a House of Lords committee has said.
The legal framework in the UK is failing to enforce the basic principles of copyright amid a rise in AI development, said the Lords’ communications and digital committee.
“Some tech firms are using copyrighted material without permission, reaping vast financial rewards,” said the committee.
Copyright has become a key battleground in the development of generative AI – the term for technology that generates text, image and audio from a human-typed command.