Wikimedia Foundation warns AI copyright ruling could threaten open web
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The nonprofit behind Wikipedia wants courts to protect AI training on copyrighted work while drawing a hard line at chatbots that regurgitate it In an amicus brief filed Friday, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia asked courts to take a middle path. Training large language models on copyrighted material should get legal protection, it argues. Chatbots spitting that material back out to users should not. That position puts Wikimedia in an unusual spot. It is effectively telling both The New York Times and OpenAI that they are each partly right. Wikimedia’s brief splits the AI pipeline into two distinct stages.
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