A committee of British lawmakers has criticized the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a "de facto endorsement" of how tech companies build large language models.
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Since OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022, industry pundits, media and governments have insisted that the LLMs driving the technology are the next step forward in computing.
However, owners of copyrighted material – text, image and audio data – have complained that their intellectual property rights have been stolen on an industrial scale to create them. Model builders claim that their use of the material is fair.
In a letter to Science and Technology Minister Michelle Donelan, the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications and Digital said the government's record on copyright is "inadequate and deteriorating".
