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More ethical AI? Fairly Trained launches to certify gen AI tools trained on licensed data
The non-profit wants to help consumers find and choose tools trained on data licensed expressly to AI companies for that purpose.
It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it. Nonetheless, there is a growing vocal opposition to this type of data scraping, with numerous best-selling authors and artists suing various AI companies for allegedly infringing copyright by training on their work without express consent. VentureBeat reached out to Newton-Rex over email and asked him about the common argument from leading AI companies and proponents that training on publicly available data is analogous to what human beings already do passively when observing other works of art and creative material that may later inspire them — consciously or otherwise.
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