Enterprise AI Governance Lead @ AstraZeneca | AI Governance Faculty & Advisory Board Member @ IAPP | OECD AI Expert I Personal views only
Interesting announcement from Google today: Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification, spotted by Farzad Parvin Zamir. Full article: https://lnkd.in/eNNC6GbQ There are many ongoing legal cases where parties are claiming copyright and intellectual property (IP) infringement linked to both the data used to train generative AI models, as well as the ownership of the outputs (i.e., content) those models generate. Put simply, many are claiming that generative AI models have been trained on data which the AI developer did not have the right to use and, in some cases, that the original IP holders should also have some IP rights over the AI's outputs. This has led to organisations being concerned that they may not own the content which generative AI models produce or that they may be challenged in court due to the data those models were trained on. Google Cloud have sought to assuage these concerns, by committing to assuming responsibility for the legal risks associated with any copyright challenges relating to use of Google's generative AI products. This commitment includes: ➡️ Training Data Indemnity: If third parties claim copyright infringement, challenging Google's customers based on the data used to train Google's generative AI models which they use, Google has committed to indemnifying its customers. ➡️ Generated Output Indemnity: Google customers will also be protected from copyright infringement claims in the context of content generated by Duet AI in Google Workspace and a range of Google Cloud services, so long as they are following Responsible AI practices. Microsoft made a similar announcement a few weeks ago, with its Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers: https://lnkd.in/efw2j8-J
This doesn't actually address the concerns but actually more protects and encourages infringers 🤔 It still doesn't protect or compensate a person for them using your data when you use their products🤔
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6mo1/4 Kai Zenner looks familiar? ;) Microsoft did the same on cloud & IP a few years back. Of course, only companies with hundreds/thousands of lawyers are able to offer such a service profitably (and monetize it, through their bundled service perhaps/premium pricing). The strategy plays out in 3 steps, and is a superb strategy for market share protection - the most sophisticated I have heard of so far: 1. At the legislative stage, you (Google/Microsoft) lobby for 3 years worldwide to push any AI-related regulatory requirements on the downstream deployers of your models, maximizing the legal risks for your customers, in particular risks that are beyond the customers control (e.g. Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, ...’s design decisions, training data decisions, quality management, …) which may result in IP infringement, because you simultaneously don’t give access to model design.