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World Business Report: First broadcast 17/11/2023 15:32 GMT : AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row

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AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row

First broadcast 17/11/2023 15:32 GMT 

First broadcast 17/11/2023 15:32 GMT : AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row

BBC World Service - World Business Report, AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row

Former AI executive says it's not acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission.

A senior executive at the tech firm Stability AI has resigned over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.

Is it ok for tech firms to exploit other people's copyrighted work in order to develop artificial intelligence? AI routinely uses smart-learning to feed off existing internet content to train and develop its algorithms, and in many cases, that's someone's intellectual property. But is there a copyright issue here? One senior UK executive thinks so. Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, Stability, which is based in the UK and US. But he's now resigned his post, saying he thought it was "exploitative" for any AI developer to use creative work without consent.

The firm IBM has suspended all advertising on the platform X, formerly known as Twitter, after a report said that IBM's ads were being placed next to posts praising Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

Practice sessions at the Las Vegas Grand Prix have been disrupted by a manhole cover on the track. Two cars were damaged when a manhole came loose, prompting officials to temporarily suspend practice. The session was later restarted at 4 o-clock in the morning local time. Formula One spent more than six hundred million dollars ($621m) preparing for the race, but it's faced criticism - even from the current world champion, Max Verstappen. 

(Picture: 2023/08/14: In this photo illustration, Stability.ai (Stability AI) logo is seen on a smartphone and on a pc screen. Picture Credit: Getty Images).

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