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Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows has been used without permission to train generative-AI tools, including by companies such as Apple and Anthropic (of Claude), a new investigation in The Atlantic reveals
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
One screenwriter recently told me he’s seen generative AI reproduce close imitations of The Godfather and the 1980s TV show Alf, but he had no way to prove that a program had been trained on such material. They contain the rhythms and styles of spoken conversation and allow tech companies to expand generative AI’s repertoire beyond academic texts, journalism, and novels, all of which have also been used to train these programs. Numerous lawsuits have been brought against tech companies by writers, actors, artists, and publishers alleging that their copyrights have been violated in the AI-training process: As Breaking Bad ’s creator, Vince Gilligan, wrote to the U.S.
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