Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from Windows Central
Microsoft may have opened a can of worms with recent comments made by the tech giant’s CEO of AI Mustafa Suleyman. The CEO spoke with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this week. In his remarks, Suleyman claimed that all content shared on the web is available to be used for AI training unless a content producer says otherwise specifically.
The whole discussion was interesting — but this particular question was very direct. CNBC’s interviewer specifically said, “There are a number of authors here… and a number of journalists as well. And it appears that a lot of the information that has been trained on over the years has come from the web — and some of it’s the open web, and some of it’s not, and we’ve heard stories about how OpenAI was turning YouTube videos into