Copyright issues are scaring off potential users of generative AI as it becomes clear how much training data was taken without permission. Microsoft has now promised to defend its customers from copyright claims related to its AI “copilots” and to pay any fines if they lose. Adobe made a similar but more limited promise in June. Other gen AI developers will probably follow suit.
Here’s another skirmish in the on-going battle over AI systems’ use of published data. News/Media Alliance, a publishing industry trade group, has issued guidelines it would like AI developers to follow when they use someone else’s intellectual property. As you might imagine, it’s a bit of a wish list for approaches that would favor copyright owners.
In addition to using data it shouldn’t, gen AI has problems with making up data that doesn’t exist. Gleen AI just launched with a promise to reduce that problem by checking AI outputs against an enterprise’s own data, which is presumably accurate. They have $4.9 million in funding.
RudderStack, which styles itself “the AI Data Cloud Native CDP”, has unveiled a suite of Data Apps running on its Customer 360 solution, which in turn runs within Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The apps support the fast delivery of data projects — for example, attribution data and propensity scores — from data teams to business stakeholders. They are now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on Snowflake.